“I brought you what you had asked me.” She said to him, “here are three whiskers of a lion.”
The old man looked at her with an amazed gaze.
“Tell me how you did it,” he asked her.
When she told him how she had reached her goal, he looked at her quietly.
“Well,” she said to him, “now you can prepare this medicine that will restore my husband’s affection to me?”
“What medicine do you mean? You, who managed to calm and to tame this wild animal, can’t you manage to do the same for your husband? Behave as you did with the lion, with the courage, the sweetness and the patience! There is no other magic.”
And indeed, she knew how to find for her husband the words, the gestures and the charms that were necessary. Softly and patiently, also with good dishes, she gets his heart back and they lived with joy.
4 comments:
First, the sketchings are masterful.
Second, this is a rather demeaning story to women, as if you have to go such great lengths to make your husband happy and it's your fault if he's unhappy.
The dyke police better not get-a-hold of this.
well, F & P, it's a fable from Ethiopia, so just appreciate it as a different cultural view on the whole man-woman relationship.
That's true. I guess multiculturalism beats out gender equality.
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