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Another short tale (Dõna Maria)
About man who didn't believe in anything.
-Nobody leaves their [[strikethrough]] house [[/strikethrough]] town during festival time.\
- the man went fishing because he had no food in spite of tradition to stay home
- he searches but can not find fish or lake so he goes to river entrance to lake.
- he sees another man fishing in the field
- he plays trick on other man by pulling on his line
- But the other man was a festival devil not a man, devil pulled man out of under a fishing line. Devil tied up the man & left him in field.
-The devil started a fire in the field to Roast the man who didn't believe, but wood was wet and only caused smoke which caused man to cry.
-Devil wipe away tears but looked for dry wood to build fire.
- The man bit the ropes & escaped.