Flower legends - страница 2

Centuries passed, amaryllis decorated the dreary desert with its amazing flowers, delighting the god of autumn with its flowering. But in the depths of the flower, the soul of a beautiful nymph continued to live, who promised herself that she would no longer be so cruel to young men.

But people were afraid to touch the poisonous flower and avoided it. Amaryllis still hoped and waited that there would be a person who would love her in the form of a fairy flower, and then the spell of the god of autumn would fall.

Once in those parts there was a young scientist who was looking for new plant species to create a medicine for terrible diseases. When he saw the amaryllis flower, he fell in love with it without memory, dug it out of the soil and carefully transported it to Russia.

He planted a magic flower at home in the most convenient and well-lit place, so that Amaryllis would feel comfortable at home. Every day, the scientist spent hours admiring his inaccessible lover, patiently caring for the fastidious beauty. And one day a miracle happened, which the young nymph had been waiting for for a long time. The young man's love for the flower turned out to be so devoted that the spell cast by the god of autumn on Amaryllis was dispelled.

At night, when the whole house was asleep, a beautiful girl came out of the flower.

This was no longer the old frivolous nymph, but a young dark-haired sorceress with a soft heart. Having known all the hardships of loneliness, she did not want to leave her savior to die of longing for her.

When leaving, Amaryllis kept a beautiful flower in memory of herself, which still blooms in early autumn.

An American legend.

A young hunter from the Onaida Indian tribe fell in love with a girl, but she remained indifferent to him. Then he asked her, and if he knocks a star out of the sky, will she become his bride?

None of the young men of the tribe offered her such a gift. The beauty considered the hunter a braggart, but agreed. And when the Indians of other tribes heard about it, they began to laugh at the young man. But he did not give up and told the proud woman to come to the meadow in the evening.

When the stars lit up, all the young people from the tribe gathered to see how the hunter was going to fulfill his promise. The young man aimed his bowstring at the sky, and after a few moments a star shattered into many sparks in the night sky, struck by the mark arrow of the young hunter.