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The Devil's Match - A Czechoslovak Folktale
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:13:24
Publish Date: 2018-11-02 09:00:00
Description:

Once upon a time there was a poor farmer who lived in a wretched tumble-down cottage beyond the village and whose farm consisted of a miserable little field no bigger than your hand. His children were ragged and hungry and his wife was always worried over getting them enough to eat.

Yet the farmer was a clever fellow with a quick shrewd wit and people used to say that he’d be able to fool the devil if ever he had the chance. One day the chance came.
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