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The Legend of Omul Mountain

The legend tells us about Emanuil, son of a mighty king and of his extraordinary queen. This queen, Emanuil’s mother, was a strange person: she had the healing gift and with only one touch she could relieve the pain and sufferance of people. People from all over the place came to her to be cured of any physical or spiritual distress they might have.

The Queen's Exile and Death

Unfortunately this much beloved queen had enemies, mean people who wanted her cast out of the castle and after a while they really managed to persuade the king to banish her from the palace.The queen was very sad and although she was in exile she continued to cure ill people. After a while she died of sorrow. Emanuil was the most affected although he was not allowed to see much of his mother during the past years. He ran away from the court and no one knew where he had disappeared. The king was dark and surly as his own son and heir vanished like that and could not see any reason for Emanuil to do that.

The truth was that Emanuil was in deep sorrow after his dear mother and retreated to the mountains, to a mysterious eremite, an old friend of the queen. Emanuil cried and explained to the hermit how blue and lost he felt and begged him for advice and guidance to become a good person. After calming him down the wise hermit advised the lad to go back to the humans and serve them: if he wanted to be good he had to learn to be humble and to do good deeds without asking for anything else instead. The young man decided to go and do it  exactly.

The first person he met on his way was an old lady who was carrying a heavy bunch of fire wood. Manuil offered to help her with the burden. He wanted to take farewell when they reached the woman’s cottage but she wanted at all costs to offer him a good meal, shelter for the night and pay him for the work done. The day after, before his leaving she made him a strange gift (probably the old woman was a sort of a witch): all the good or harm he would do to people to turn back to him.

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