Hello friends, I hope you are doing well.
Today we are going to Scotland, where the events of our story took place, which says that an old woman was living alone in a hut on one of the hills of Scotland. And she was talking to herself from the length of her loneliness, and one of the small villages not far from her hut contained several villagers who do not know much about her, and they have a lot of time they want to waste.
So they started with the morals of stories and legends about her, saying that "she is an evil witch and that she has a treasure hidden in her house."
One day, three criminals who roamed all over Scotland in search of easy money and troubles passed by from the village next to the heroine of our story, and by chance, they heard the villagers talking about that old woman, and salivated when they heard about the treasure. It didn't take long for them to agree to kill the old woman and steal her money.
The dark of the night was the right time to implement their plan, which was for one of them to come down from the chimney and open the door for the others. Then kill the old woman and take her treasure, but unless they took into account that the old woman brought three fish for dinner that night and her grill was small enough to grill only one fish.
It was only by chance that the first man came down from the chimney and women put the first fish on the grill, and the old woman was talking to the fish from the severity of its loneliness and, said: "there are three of you, but not for long, I will grill you and eat you."
The thief in the chimney did not know that she was talking to her fish and remembered the words of the villagers that she was a witch and evil, so he decided to run away and returned to his friends, saying that
she knows that we are three, and she said that she will grill us and eat us. I will not steal her or even enter her house and ran off into the woods and disappeared.
The other two stayed for a while staring at each other and decided to enter the house alone, and in the same way, the second thief went down to the house from the chimney, but the old woman started grilling the second fish, and she says, what a delicious dinner.
Then the thief said to himself, That is true that she is a witch and evil, and she will eat me. I won't go into her house. He ran back to his friend, who was the bravest of them, babbling. They're right, they're right she's a wicked witch. And she will roast us all and run on the dirt track, sometimes stumbling and sometimes falling.
The last nailed thief remained, floundering in his thoughts, and finally convinced himself that it was the cowardice of the other two thieves that made them escape.
His motive for entering the house through the chimney was that the treasure would be his alone, and no one would share it. He climbed into the chimney while the old woman did not know what was going on around her and spoke to her last fish, saying, "I finished the first two, and I had only you left. It seems I am close to preparing my dinner."
Here the last thief recanted from describing his friends as cowards, and he also believed that the old woman was an evil witch and returned disappointed and disappeared in the forest.
Since that night, no one dared approach the old woman's house, and she lived the rest of her life in peace without knowing what had happened on that fateful night.