orange fairy book

Chapter 1 The Story of the Hero Makoma
Once upon a time, in the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambezi River, a little child was born.Unlike other children, he is very tall and strong. He usually carries a big sack on his shoulders and holds a hammer in his hand. He talks like an adult, but he rarely speaks.

One day, his mother asked him, "Son, what shall we name you?"

He didn't answer directly, but said: "Mom, call all the leaders in Senna Town and go to the river together." So my mother did as he said, called all the leaders, and came to the river. riverside.

There is a place in the middle of this river, where there is a very deep black pool, where there are many ferocious crocodiles.The kid brought everyone to the pool.

He said to everyone: "Ah, heroes! You are all strong, and which of you will jump into the pond and kill these crocodiles?"

No one was willing to stand up. At this moment, he suddenly turned around and jumped into the water, and disappeared after a while.The people on the shore held their breath and thought to themselves: "This child must have been bewitched by some kind of enchantment. The crocodile will eat him. He must be dead now!"

Just as they were thinking, the earth shook suddenly, and the river was stained red with blood, tumbling eddies one after another.After a while, the boy surfaced and swam to the shore.

At this time, he is no longer the little boy he was just now!He's grown up, taller, stronger, and handsome than everyone else present!People cheered when they saw him.

"Listen," he said loudly, waving his hands, "I named myself Makoma, which means 'stronger man,' because you didn't want to take the risk of killing a crocodile, and I did."

Then, he said to his mother, "Relax, relax, Mom, I'm going to build a home of my own and be a great hero." Then he went into the cabin and picked up his "Many" hammer, picked up the big sack named "Voronou", and just left.

Makoma crossed the Zambezi River and traveled northwest for several months to a mountainous country.There, he encountered a mountain-building giant.

"Hello," Makoma called out, "who are you?"

"I am a mountain builder, and my name is Kieswamapili," replied the giant. "Who are you?"

"I'm Makoma, which means 'stronger one,'" he said.

"Stronger than who?" asked the giant.

"Stronger than you!" Makoma replied.

The giant was furious, roared, and rushed towards him.Without saying a word, Makoma swung his sledgehammer "Nundor" at the giant's head.

His hammer fell so hard that it turned the giant into a dwarf.So the giant knelt and said, "Oh, Makoma, you are indeed stronger than me, let me follow you and be your servant!" Makoma agreed, picked him up, and put him in the sack on his back .

Just like that, the giant's strength was now absorbed by him, and he was even stronger than before!He went on, carrying a sack with ease, like an eagle clutching a rabbit.

Before long, he was in another country, full of boulders and mounds of earth.Makoma stood on one of the mounds, and saw a dusty giant not far away.The giant was digging with his hands, stacking clods to his sides.

"Who are you?" asked Makoma aloud, "and why are you doing this to the land?"

"I am Chidu Brathaka," he said, "and I am digging the river."

"Do you know who I am?" said Makoma, "I'm 'Stronger'!"

"Stronger than anyone?" asked Chidu Brataka.His voice was like thunder.

"Stronger than you!" Makoma replied.

With a loud cry, Chidubrataka grabbed a large clod of earth and threw it at Makoma.But the hero Makoma carried the sack on his left arm, and the stones and clods fell on it without hurting him at all.Makoma, clutching his sledgehammer tightly, rushed forward and knocked the giant to the ground.I saw Chidu Brataka lying down in front of Makoma, his body getting smaller and smaller!Makoma waited until he was quite small before picking him up and putting him in a sack next to the mountain-building giant, Kieswamapili.

He was now stronger than before, for all the strength of the river-digging giant Chidubrataka had also become his.He went on and came into a forest full of baobabs and brambles.Every tree here grows very tall. He has never seen such a big tree and feels very surprised.After walking in, he saw Cheg Vesamiti, a giant who was planting a tree.

Cheg Wisamity was taller than the previous two giants, but Makoma was not afraid.He said loudly to the giant, "Big man, who are you?"

"I—" said the giant, "I am Cheg Vesamity, and I grow these baobabs and brambles, and my children, the elephants, eat them."

"Stop any more!" cried Makoma, "because I am Makoma, and I will fight you!"

When the giant heard this, he uprooted a huge baobab tree and threw it at Makoma so hard that he jumped aside nimbly to avoid the tree.Before the tree had quite fallen to the ground, Makoma swung his hammer, Nuendor, and knocked the giant down with one blow.

This hammer was very powerful, and Cheg Vesamity, like the other giants, couldn't resist it, and his stature became smaller.After he had breathed a sigh of relief, he begged Makoma to accept him as a servant. "Please let me be your servant," he said, "it is a privilege to serve a man as great as you!"

After Makoma put him in the sack, he moved on.After walking for many days, he came to a desolate country, where there was almost no living thing, and there were cold mountains and stones everywhere, which was desolate.In this dead country, he found a man eating fire.

"What are you doing?" Makoma asked.

"I am eating fire," replied the man, laughing. "My name is Qiai Di Amoto, because I am the god of fire, and I can destroy anything in the world."

"You are wrong," said Makoma, "I am Makoma, and I am 'stronger' than you—you cannot destroy me!"

The Vulcan laughed again, and opened his mouth to shoot a cloud of fire at Makoma, who jumped away just in time, and hid behind a rock.Looking back, the flames from Vulcan had scorched the ground where he was standing just now, and the ground was black, like a burnt pot.

Makoma threw the hammer at Kiediamoto, hitting him and beating him too weak to fight back.Makoma then put him in the sack "Voronou" to stay with the other giants who had been defeated earlier.

Now, Makoma is really a very strong hero!He has the strength to build mountains, the perseverance to lead water into wasteland, the foresight and wisdom to plant trees, and the ability to breathe fire when he wants to.

He wandered like this.One day, he came to a vast plain, where the land was fertile and the prey was abundant.In the middle of the plain, there is a green area bordered by a big river. This place is very suitable for building a home.

Makoma was delighted to see this green space, and sat down against a big tree, put down the sack from his shoulders, took out all the giants, and placed them in front of him. "My friends," said he, "I have been walking a long time, and I am tired. Isn't this a place for a hero to make his home? Tomorrow, we will cut wood and build a tribe!" The giants agreed.

The next day, Makoma and the three giants went out to chop wood and come back to build the stables, leaving only Chieswamapili to guard the place and to cook the game they brought back.But at night, when they came back, they found Kieswamapili tied to a tree by a thick hair.

"What's going on?" Makoma asked in surprise, "Why are you tied up?"

"Hey, sir," replied Kieswamapili, "at noon a man came out of the river. He was a huge man with a gray beard so long he couldn't see the end! He asked me Who was my master, I replied, 'Makoma, the greatest hero.' So he seized me, pulled out a beard, and tied me to a tree, as you see now. "

Makoma was very angry, but he said nothing, cut off the beard as thick as twine with his fingernails, and let him down.

From the next day, Makoma arranged for a giant to take turns guarding the green space every day.However, the same thing happened.For three days, the three giants were tied to the tree in turn.On the fourth day, Makoma decided to stay in the camp and send the others out to cut wood.He wanted to see for himself this guy who lived in the river and had a beard that grew endlessly.

When the giants were gone, he cleaned the camp and roasted game over the fire.At noon, when the sun was high above his head, he heard a "rumbling" sound from the other side of the river. He looked up and saw a huge head and shoulders emerging from the river.Look!Up and down the entire river are the gray beards of giants, stretching far into the distance, and finally disappearing into the blue sky!
"Who are you?" roared the Giant as soon as he was out of the water.

"I am Makoma," said the hero Makoma, "before I kill you, tell me your name and what are you doing in the river?"

"My name is Chinde Paomaukili," said the giant. "My home is in the river, and the zealand grass on the water is my beard. If anyone comes near me, I will tie them up with the beard and kill them." .”

"You can't bind me!" cried Makoma, swinging his sledgehammer, and charged at the giant.However, the river monster was sticky all over. Although the blow hit his chest, the hammer slipped off his body without hurting him.When Makoma was on his feet again, the giant had wrapped a long beard around him and bound him up.

Makoma was helpless for a while, at this moment, he suddenly remembered that he had the power of Vulcan, so he opened his mouth wide, pointed at the beard tied to his body, and blew hot air.The beard was burned off in one fell swoop, and Makoma broke free.

The giant Chinde Paomaukili chased after him, trying to catch him again, but Makoma put his sack "Voronou" on the giant's slippery head, grabbed his hammer, and hit it again.This time the shot landed on the sack, and Chindalpaomaukili fell down, dead.

When the sun went down, the four giants came back with chopped wood.They were all glad to see Makoma's victory over the bearded giant, and they celebrated with a big barbecue that lasted well into the night.

When they awoke the next morning, they found that Makoma had risen early and was sitting by the fire to keep warm, with a gloomy face.

"Oh, friends," said Makoma, "last night the spirits of my ancestors came to me and said to me: 'Makoma, you cannot rest until you find Sakatirina and defeat him. He has five heads and is very tall and strong. You must say goodbye to your friends, because this time you must go alone.'”

When the giants saw that the hero Makoma was about to leave them, they were very disappointed and sad.Makoma comforted them and gave them back the power he had taken from them.Makoma then said "goodbye" to them and hit the road.

Makoma walked a long way to the west, climbed over rugged mountains, crossed wet swamps, waded deep rivers, spent many days, and crossed a desert that ordinary people could hardly get out of alive, and finally When I came to a house, there were several huge mountain peaks beside the house, and there were two beautiful women in the house.

"Hello!" said Makoma, "is this the country of the five-headed monster Sakatilina?"

"Oh, welcome, hero!" They replied, "We are the wives of Sacatirina, you don't have to look for it, because the person you are looking for is standing there!" Two tall mountains.Makoma thought it was just an ordinary mountain peak, but the two women said, "That's his leg, you can't see his body because his body is hidden in the clouds."

Makoma was surprised to see his opponent so tall, but he was not dismayed.He walked forward, went to Sakatilina's leg, and hit it hard with the hammer "Nundo", but the giant didn't respond, so he knocked again, still no response.He kept knocking, and finally, he heard a tired voice from afar: "Who is scratching my feet?"

Makoma said as loudly as he did: "It's me, Makoma, the 'stronger man'!" But after a long time, he didn't hear the answer either.

So Makoma gathered all the dead branches that were in the neighborhood, made a great circle around the giant's legs, and lit a fire.

At this moment, the giant spoke again.His voice was terrible, like thunder rumbling in the clouds: "Who quietly lit a fire at my feet?"

"It is I, Makoma!" said the hero Makoma, "I have come to you from afar, Sakatirina, and the spirit of my ancestors has called me to defeat you, lest I remain still and become more and more like you. Get fatter and hate yourself by the time."

There is no sound.After a while the Giant whispered, "Very well, Makoma!" he said, "I hate myself too, for no one is as big as I am, and I am always all alone. Be careful!" He suddenly bent down, grabbed the Makoma, and threw it to the ground.But lo!Ma Koma was not killed by the fall, he is still alive!He jumped up, stronger and taller than ever, and rushed to grab the Giant by the waist and try to wrestle him.

Now, they are all so tall, and the mountains are at their feet, as small as pebbles in the water.They fought for hours and hours, with neither winner nor loser.Makoma suddenly turned from defense to attack, and with all his strength, knocked on the giant with the hammer "Nundo".Sakatilina did not show weakness, pulled up the mountain and threw it at Makoma.Neither side can kill the other.On the second day, they were still fighting so fiercely that they couldn't stop, but their strength became smaller and smaller, just like the sun was setting little by little, and finally they fell to the ground together, unconscious .

In the morning they awoke and saw the Holy Spirit Mulimer standing beside them and said to them, "Hi, Makoma, Sakatirina! You are great heroes, no one can defeat you, so you You can leave this world with me and live in the clouds in the sky." As he spoke, the people on the ground could not see the two of them, and no one has seen them since.

(End of this chapter)