THE GIRL THAT KISSED THE PEACH TREE

BY ELEANOR FARJOEN

AN INDIAN FOLKTALE...


A peasant girl,Marietta lived in Sicily,a country full of fruit trees,peach and apricot.The fruit country lay spread out at the foot of mountain.The mountain was a volcano which erupts with red fire stone from its hole and destroys everything in its course. The people in the country regards it as the King of the Mountain. There came one morning when Marietta was playing with her plant that she loved more than anything as her brother planted it the day she was born. She always spent time with her plant and also treat it as her friend and talk to it that caused his brother to tease her.There came one morning, when Marietta felt severe tremble in the ground and grumble in the air. All the people immediately went to the church to pray to the god to protect them from the danger.But the priest ask them to evacuate as soon as possible as the suitation was worse.So the people kissed their trees to ask blessings from the god for their fruit trees to survive.On the way out with her mother, Marietta realised that she did not kissed her plant,so she went back without telling her mother... After some time,her mother get to know she was not with her and informed her brother.Her brother went inside his house and saw her lying in the ground with her plant. When she woke up she told her brother that the plant told her not to be afraid and the King of Mountain would go back if the plant goes back with it and the plant is ready to go with the mountain she came to kiss it.. Her brother shouted 'it had went back' and the people said it is really an miracle to happen in the country...


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