--- title: The Vampire and St Michael — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · full text with trees · page 3 description: The Vampire and St Michael, «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time in a certain village there lived two neighbours; one was rich, very rich, and the other so poor that he had nothing in the world bu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/page/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / The Vampire and St Michael # The Vampire and St Michael · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/201/) — The horse swam to a bosquet that rose out of the sea, and there the herd of sea-horses was grazing. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/202/) — When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried on his back, it set off after him at full tilt, and the whole herd followed the strong charger of Nastasia. - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/203/) — They drove the horse with the hides into the sea, and pursued him. - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/204/) — Then the strong charger of Nastasia caught up the steed of Tremsin and tore off one of his hides, and began to worry it with his teeth and tear it to fragments as he ran. - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/205/) — Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and began to worry that in like manner till he had torn it also to shreds; and thus he ran after Tremsin's steed for seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and worried them to bits. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/206/) — But Tremsin sat upon the sea-shore till he saw the large white billow bounding in, and behind the billow came his own horse, and behind his own horse came the thrice-terrible charger of the thrice-lovely Nastasia, with the whole herd at his heels. - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/207/) — Tremsin struck him full on the forehead with the twenty poods of hair, and immediately he stood stock still. - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/208/) — Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-lovely Nastasia. - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/209/) — Nastasia praised Tremsin for his prowess, and said to him, "Well, thou hast got the feather of the Bird Zhar, thou hast got the Bird Zhar itself, thou hast got me my coral and my herd of horses, now milk my mare and put the milk into three vats, so that there may be milk hot as boiling water in the first vat, lukewarm milk in the second vat, and icy cold milk in the third vat." - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/210/) — Then Tremsin went to his faithful steed and wept bitterly, and the horse said to him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--"Why should I not weep?" cried he; "the thrice-lovely Nastasia has given me a task to do that cannot be done. - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/211/) — I am to fill three vats with the milk from her mare, and the milk must be boiling hot in the first vat, and lukewarm in the second, and icy cold in the third vat."--"Oh-ho!" cried the horse, "that is not a task, but a trifle. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/212/) — I'll caress the mare, and then go on nibbling till thou hast milked all three vats full." - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/213/) — So Tremsin did so. - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/214/) — He milked the three vats full, and the milk in the first vat was boiling hot, and in the second vat warm, and in the third vat freezing cold. - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/215/) — When all was ready the thrice-lovely Nastasia said to Tremsin, "Now, leap first of all into the cold vat, and then into the warm vat, and then into the boiling hot vat!"--Tremsin leaped into the first vat, and leaped out again an old man; he leaped into the second vat, and leaped out again a youth; he leaped into the third vat, but when he leaped out again, he was so young and handsome that no pen can describe it, and no tale can tell of it. - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/216/) — Then the thrice-lovely Nastasia herself leaped into the vats. - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/217/) — She leaped into the first vat, and came out an old woman; she leaped into the second vat, and came out a young maid; but when she leaped out of the third vat, she was so handsome and goodly that no pen can describe it, and no tale can tell of it. - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/218/) — Then the thrice-lovely Nastasia made the nobleman leap into the vats. - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/219/) — He leaped into the first vat, and became quite old; he leaped into the second vat, and became quite young; he leaped into the third vat, and burst to pieces. - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/220/) — Then Tremsin took unto himself the thrice-lovely Nastasia to wife, and they lived happily together on the nobleman's estate, and the evil servants they drove right away. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/221/) — \[13\] A pood = 40 lb. 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