The Tale of the Jumping Serpents of Bosnia (Revised and Reedited 7/2008) ~ Teenage Medium Length Hair

Introduction

along the coast of the Adriatic Sea lives what is now called "Viper", known as "Jumping Snake '. These creatures are some five feet long and to my understanding can jump about three feet into the air and jump about five feet in any direction they want to simply order whatever, wherever. But it did not happen by accident, really and truly happened necessity. And that's a story you want to hear, 'why', about how it originated. And to be quite honest, you will be the first to hear about it.

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There was a time when the noble kings ruled Bosnia (and surrounding countries, as we know Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia)-time what was known as the Medieval Bosnia (958-1463), this story takes place, a time when cold snowy winter struck this mountainous region with a bluish-purple, violent crosswinds coming from the Adriatic Sea through the Mediterranean Sea, when the country had a hellish land for their people to crossover, such as the Dinaric Alps and the beautiful Drina River, which flows through endless villages and cities, in eastern Bosnia, surrounded by hills and mountains, and the Neretva River, which flows south to the Adriatic: Dinarides here to provide shelter on the ruins of old fortifications that dot the mountain landscape, at this point is where our story begins and ends.

Some people have said, old man, Mr. Goose, descended from the mountain Zlatibor, after visiting the village area known as Sirogojno, maybe a business in the area before he came to King's Mon Kingdom, no knows for sure, but here was a stranger surrounded by the Dinaric Alps, and forests in eastern Bosnia, where he traveled, which is difficult wooded along the Drina River, along the way, we know went Gorazed (sort of trading settlements), people in the village who saw him said he seemed shackled in an idea, they pay little attention to, "Keep away from us," yelped the country people are out of town, another asked: "What you are not in order here?" It's like this old ugly man knew something they did not know. They say, blackbirds him, stretched his wings, and stretched out, stooped and fell as he walked by, swaggering in the Bosnian Sun Then he finished up the Adriatic Sea in the south, the old town of Dubrovnik (7th century), among all this kingdom Feudalism old ruling system, known as the King's realm Mon. It seems an old man surveying, checking the country of mountains and rivers to the sea, to see the scope of its task, the task has yet to commit, but one was seriously considering.

Now come and join me for my story about stories, and I think anything that does not exist feather of truth in this story, for it will be misled into thinking otherwise ...:

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Once upon a time, a few hundred years or so, there were many snakes along the Adriatic coast, and in the same mountainous area, the land now called Bosnia. They increased the length of these people back in the days, in that distant country. These snakes ((Hop) (Vipera ammodytes)) are reddish-brown color, and for the most part, very clever, that is, a smart breed of snake species, with sharp fangs, which are very toxic, and snakes are also quite aggressive for the most part.

In addition to living in a tree trunk, the lack of a better home, accommodation, affection, and the sun, these snakes sleep on the side of the road to a great extent, where often times they chummed with a second-(figuratively speaking that is), looks like a dried up old branches, logs and so on, especially in the fall season (autumn)-laying over one another like little lions. But as winter came around, back into the trunks of trees and the hole they find themselves. And when I see pedestrians, especially during the long hot summer, they'd play possum [dead], and when women in particular will carry water to nearby villages or to their country of residence, and if they 'd walk around them, they would Slowly twist your body and positioning themselves just right-then, faster than you could reći'pomoć 'they' have their fangs, in one leg. A fresh water to be fed and put out their thirst. It should be noted, because of its aggressive nature, even the best on-the best of their day, it would be difficult for them to do their dirty work, he seemed to simply be born with an aggressive nature (character or personality ).

-Well, this went on for the longest time, or so it seemed, and one day in the sun one hour after hearing from one year to people complaints and protests, King, King Mon region, announced that whoever could rid the area of these nasty and evil snake, he would reward them by allowing them to marry his beautiful and young daughter. Ah yes, that is really enticing prizes, all within the province of the kingdom, wished they had such courage, if not skill, or maybe even a spell to tame these creatures-do this assignment, to receive this award. But no one came forward.

Well, everything is fare in love and war, so they say, then, Mr. Goose, an old man from Croatia, whom I have met a while ago [eighty two years old at this point in the story], I went small mountain kingdom, and spoke with the king about his prize Mon will be, he should clear the ground of these creepy-crawling kind of creatures that infested every nook, tree and, oh well, let's just say, the whole landscape, he will be allowed to Without a doubt, his daughter, the princess married?

, "said King, with a skeptical eye,

"That the army is afraid to delete these hills and mountains and coastline of the aggressive, hostile evil doers who were killed, eaten more than a thousand lives a thousand lives I say, of my kingdom, my kingdom of the past that it was some forty years, for now, yes, no doubt, how can one expect a man to do this, it is beyond me (plus the old king did not like his? integrity is put into question the old man could implicitly be less than what he declared ."

In a way, it seems the king has given up, had a loss of hope, despair, yet he kept the prize announced during his kingdom, and believe his word was as good as gold, he jekralj, but also a man of honor , which he said he thought not, no doubt, and he had integrity, and he implied he, along with his integrity should not be a matter of fact that Mr. Goose

, the old man said (the king), an old man who's weird looking and pushing the legs that looked more animalistic than human with mammalian hairs sticking out all over the place, which means, all openings in your pants, where any are loose and more, also his shirt, which has holes in it, and on his face and hands, also the inside of his ears looked like a bird's nest with all his hair, a nose, his hair sticking out of it, like a short thin spaghetti, except it had a wide mouth, which went almost from one ear to another, long pointed skull (tapering towards the back), and that is to say, very long time had a slant on it, which withdrew from the head back to your fruit looking for hair, and is also quite thin and the goofy face, which was revealed secrets, secrets beyond our imagination, and possibly a thin, thin, small mustache, who embedded uOstatak his hairy face and a thin bone structure, big eyes and legs, everything is colorful and hairy, fingers and toes, they are like the claws of a hawk. He also had small ears and short legs for their body, what is more, in some way, all over the shoulders looked like goats over, in human form. Plus his skin was as thick as rawhide, he said (Ah! but it is enthusiastic and keen to King :)

"I'll take my daughter for my reward, as promised after that, I needed to accomplish the mission, of course, but if you want to know how I do it a feat, it will cost you your kingdom."

Its receptors, it is protected from the venoms of poisonous snakes, embodied in his nervous system. Also, I should add here, his agility and cunning, allowed him to capture the snake, with a little effort, and he is on his way, funny and intelligent.

[How rude thought the king] With the Stiff Upper Lip, brow, and reaching into the air, short and stocky old king, with curly golden locks of hair hanging over his ears, and long golden beard, stood in front of the guy looks like a beggar man , which is deeply set eyes, large, and convinced that the great eyes, which are small and thin bridge separating them from what he called his nose, but it looked more like a reptilian snout tip with only two air holes poked in his upper face, with only a small onion and slots breathe though.

said, the King said with scorn at his cheekbones, stiff bones, perturbing the bone, even through his fat:

"So, you will have my daughter, not my kingdom, you need to achieve this task, this mission, and you would not, I advise you, you old coot, to be gone from these hills, far left, because I certainly will take and was beaten on his last gulp of air, should you not realize this, just for your absurd audacity to think so highly of yourself in front of me, and question my intention, if not integrity. "

Ah yes, the king was feeling his oats, indeed, his words sharp, and heavy was his heart.

-No more be said, the old man had now turned and with his shifty looking dark eyes, ebony eyes that resembled a rat intensity, he came through the door, as strange as he had walked in almost silently, not looking for any way but straight.

After opening the door up, and the king still sits on his throne, Grand, two soldiers came with a huge eight foot (hop), king snakes to show your good work, their catch of the day. They had tied her mouth shut with a rope, and he wore long heavy curved water polo. She must have weighed two to one hundred pounds or more. As two soldiers walked past the old man, the king began to rise to get a good look at a snake, a closer look, the more deliberate kind of look in the process, the snake got a look at the old man's eyes-to the whistle from his mouth (the old man's mouth), that mouth certainly like thunder erupting it, or possibly as a sound from the volcano, the snake started hissing back, and struggling wildly, back, head, mouth and the entire length of snakes, all kinds of company-Kočila turmoil engulfed the snake, the old man got closer to the snake, the more it hissed, stiffened and jumped as if from some sort of uncontrollable neurological reactions involuntary reaction.

As the old man now walks with a snake, almost eye to eye and shoulder to shoulder, even though the snake did not have shoulders, but had a hand it, hop, it seemed as if about to fly to a half of pure fear, the right of two soldiers wearing gloves, trying to get free, trying to escape the old man's presence. In fact, viper was so angry, angry, hysterical, and that even the snake began to eat the rope that was bound and tied with certainty.

When the soldiers testified that they dropped the pole, along the border snakes on a marble floor inside the King's throne room, as the king looked on, on to the snake and the old man with one view, the view was given a snake, and only one Mali look to the old man, he, the king noticed a passing glance from the old man is frightened snake, that he was indeed thinking of the king, therefore, knew this man was extraordinary, and although he wanted, he hesitated in the mind and soul to stop this potential marriage just then and now, but he had no other resource left, the old man to-man was there, he should not do the job, consequently, there would be no rule the kingdom in time. Princess I should just wait, time will make the old man, and she would be free to remarry again.

As soon as the old man out of the throne room and out the door: Out of sight, the snake was again weakened composure back before his former self, pose-it was to see this old gentleman and kind of deformed, peace, and call it peace Regardless, calm was restored

For this reason, and beyond, who, for five years to follow, an agreement was signed, and now the old man would walk slowly up and down trails, paths and roads of the valley and the mountain kingdom-fro day, looking at each tree and the dead, walking the coast of the Adriatic, and combing the miles and miles of forest land, an area near the King's domain, sweeping all the snakes that he could find: he ate them like animals eat meat, to be ripped apart like a rat to a hen. He came to the point, as you said, that the area has more than 10,000 snakes at one time, at this point, that number had dropped down quickly, so far down, there were only ten snakes in the whole area to the left.

Yes, oh yes, indeed, there were only ten snakes left, almost hop-genocide took place in and around this small kingdom, and these ten got together, and by necessity (the inevitable might say) , started to learn how to jump and leap. They would collect water, lakes, rivers, wherever they could and watched the frogs as they move, jump, throw, dive, and even watched the frog jump, jolt and drop, all and any creature that jump, or was hoped jumped, they reviewed, carefully considered, and by instinct, and the need for continued existence, in the years learned how to jump about three feet in the air, and some five to seven feet in any direction straight-forward to it. As a result, it was their way to escape from this snake eats human species: an old man

Together with this new acquired skill, and with a new younger generation is born, the elders tried to explain to them the value of learning, jumps, and jumps, and the sounds they make in the autumn leaves, and when spring came got excited to play, but they have learned while the old man was alive, it was not safe, no matter what. And even in winter, they need to be wise and conscientious where they went, the reason being, they leave footprints in the snow, they said, and it is not wise, old man to follow him. In essence, they need to be shrewder than the old man, if they wanted to survive.

Older snakes even reinforced the fact under the new snakes should be wicked to the point that not even let your mind or body decay in the winter, so fast in the spring and summer, and light on their bellies, as well, they absorb all such studies the

-four years gone by, and the old man was at the time eighty-six years old. His heart was tired, failing, and wanted more than anything to leave behind a legacy, but he had another year to a country without the evil snake, he should succeed, he would lose the beautiful young princess bright eyes: in their mind, It can not be tolerated, such as the old expression goes, he would lose the 'goats and rope, so it should be careful, shrewd, perceptive, it should be, but this time with more than a king snake.

On this, the old man found these ten snakes, all in different places (not knowing, of course, they had offspring hidden away): Some of the trees, the other side of the road game is dead, and another with the high waters of the sea, He would go to grab them, and before he could touch them, they would jump, jump right through his hands, right from your fingers. Therefore, you can see the old man, worried about the taste of triumph.

A few jumps and the snakes were gone, out of sight. Well, it bothered the old man to the extreme, but he knew if he kept the snakes hidden, and busy, he'd still get his salary, or it could if it was misleading enough, perhaps a bit misleading. And therefore, play as if nothing had happened-he'd continue to participate in this, what he calls the competition, or sabotage, and the king would be none the wiser, the end result of which, the old man kept walking hiking trails, and All the villagers saw him do, day after day after day, and word got back to the king of all the roads are clean and clear Snake.

However, in checking out the tree, and the road, he occasionally found a snake or two, but again make the leap from his presence on the safety (and again I say, no one had seen a snake for a long time now, one that is already star man, and the king was not any wiser to his charade). And slowly but surely the old man saw a number of snakes began to increase, but they are simply baby snakes, and his mother kept them hidden from him for the most part, and he wanted to keep that way until after he received the Award that is, because he knew, his reflexes are not as they were several years ago, and each year is missing more and more in the area of impulse response in each case, are slow, and leaping, it was impossible to catch them now, Again, I must point out, in fear that died out all over again, they hid when they could, and jumped when they had to, or jumped to safety, or some hidden area, you should have become aware of the old man around.

So again, I repeat, no one had seen them, and snakes are the old man knew he was aging and would not live forever, as a consequence, if only they could last from him, from him to wait in many cases it is the only way to deal with such threats as an old man, and found the snake, and so out they would wait for him. And between now and his death, they hissed with laughter on finding ways to make a smart old man. But, as the old saying goes, and the snake did not know that word, "He who laughs last, laughs longest .'

And now, the fifth year has come and gone, the old man had completed his task, his mission and so, the old king went to seek his reward. There in the throne room, he, Mr. Goose, stood before the king, telling him about their efforts.

For the first time Princess burned with curiosity, eager to hear what the old man had to say. She leaned forward so that she could see through cracks in the curtains in the throne room. At first she thought were thin at best, then I think could accomplish the mission, she listened even closer, more attentive, eyes closed hearing what he did, and as an old man stared at the moving curtain, he muttered:

"And for the love making, let's hurry on the wedding ."

On, Mr. Goose, was by no means, Couth about it, but pretty dull.

king looks pretty awful at his parting from his daughter gave her yet-old man invited her over behind the curtain to meet Mr. Goose, with not much to say and then took a big celebration.

twenty years a beautiful princess was adorned with all kinds of flowers and jewels and riches beyond imagination. I went to a party and on all night.

Surprisingly, by this time the king observed that he, the old man only had eyes for the princess, his daughter, and not the wealth he possessed. Somehow that seemed to elevate the whole thing a lot more, in an ugly way, it is. As a young danced with the groom, all the young bucks looked on with disgust and envy, envy might be a little more than disgust. Princess though in dismay, he did not say anything, it's not a shame of her father's will, as a good daughter, she kissed her husband and bid good night to guests as they went into their room to consume a marriage.

It was early evening and the moon, which was hidden behind clouds, there was a warm wind blowing through the window of the castle bedrooms, and an old man is now about to seek their pleasures. There was the sound of music in the bedroom, blown under the bedroom door, to gently branched out throughout the room-black shadows, drove to and fro, from corner to corner in the bedroom

so far, love-making is a tired old man, where the dosage at times, starting even snoring, his hands under the back of his head, lying on his back, eyes closed, saving, small view of his new young and beautiful bride, and wife, both on and off, more off than on as the night went on.

as an extraordinary evening went forward, the old man fell to sleep, and in the morning, the princess tried to wake her new husband for breakfast, only to find it, lifeless, dead, dead. She was humbled, and yet relieved, quickly called her father, and he called on doctors and guards. The word has gotten quickly to the princess' husband had heart failure, and it will be in mourning. No, snakes in the area are updated news, and bravely came out, back on track, and around trees and coastal areas with their young ones, almost like the Fiesta.

King now saw this new resurrection of the snake did not know what to do, but it was not half as bad as it was the last five years, and realized that I would look in another man of same qualities, and tried to find the Goose family without success. Then, finding his daughter was pregnant, it got me thinking, maybe, just possibly, regardless of the quality of the old man had in their genes, could be in his blood line, so, in his grandson up [in the hope that it will be Boy ].

"awe, " he said with a shining eyes and ghastly, "safe, " he told his daughter, "she should bear a son, he will be a storm of serpents." (King of thinking, "All is fair in love and war .')

So the king and his kingdom all been waiting for the birth of a child.

and then this happened, the ninth month, the third day, early in the morning, the sun has just risen: all waited outside the door to hear the babies cry, but there was a cry, a child was born, with loud hiss

As the doctor looked at the child, he was stunned, and the child was horrifying to look at, therefore, in all respects, in every day life of a doctor, he had never seen such a hideous looking child, deformed, long thin hanging nose, bug-eyed creature, he was simply amazed at their looks he just shook his head, nodded his chin back and forth as if to grab some common sense: it looked like a skunk, but it is a human form to it. It seemed child's brain lobes expanded outwards, that is, pushing the skull like a rubber in the form of an impression on the surface of his head, which did not have hair. His eyes were, a third of his face.

At this point, the doctor remembered the old man looked like: comparing the child to his father or perhaps using a little imagination, in relation to the child when the child's father or maybe he was a child, or perhaps what is seen by his father on imagined, and as a result, made his comparisons, and now thinking about the king, he was thinking about what to do, for the king and the kingdom of

did not show the child to anyone, not a soul (although he said the king), and ordered everyone to stay away, that the plague, and need to get the child out of the castle prijeepidemija occurred; King concurring, with all like-minded what he said. And during the late night took the child out of the kingdom, saying all concerned, the child can be contagious (which had, of course, such diseases), will be touched by anyone, just kill them just to look at it-figuratively speaking again. But who could understand such ugliness, and perhaps the princess would want to keep it. And so the doctor left the castle.

Soft shadows are dark as he walked down the lane, into the woods, in tall grass, stealthily past barns and houses, farms, roads i.

is a physician who is now cared for the child, the child named Mon-goose ", taking the name of the king and father. I left it in the woods-no, never to return to the castle, therefore, is called the Mongoose , born

In ancient times snakes have died, all except one, a young snake is now trying to forget those years with the snake eats, awesome sights of asking him to stalk and their parents. All this was forgotten, until one day, one of the snakes, which the older snakes, I just mentioned, perhaps the only one left from the old generation who lived through those trying days, Mr. Goose, saw a man, he looked like an old gentleman Goose , that he resembles, but was much young and old snake, he said out loud (and other snakes in the vicinity heard him, and stiffening his body in horror ),

"snake eating is back!" or so he said, and all other snakes asked questioned him, if he really saw what he thought he saw, and the old just prayed to the snake is an illusion. And he did not say another word, if nothing else, he was hoping that the automatic reaction, perhaps, post traumatic stress.

End of story.