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Old man Сrawley and wood goblin

from Lunar Folk Tales (Full Version) by Lunar Cape

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Here's another forest story. It happened in the winter. Far away, in the forest, lived the Wood Goblin. Right next to him, in the swamp, lived Kikimora. He knew that Kikimora was the most beautiful of beauties among the forest creatures. Somehow, before Christmas, Wood Goblin decided to marry Kikimora. But Kikimora gave him a wet and cold shoulder, as he was too scary-looking.
Then the Wood Goblin thought up a tricky thing. Out of swamp ice he made a magic mirror in which everything beautiful and good looked wicked and terrible, and everything ugly and horrible was, on the contrary, made to look beautiful. The Wood Goblin looked at himself in the mirror and almost fell in love with himself, that’s how handsome he became.
“Why do I need Kikimora now”, he thought. “Give me princess Maria!” He turned around and was off. The mirror remained in the middle of the thicket, distorting everything that it reflected.
Nearby, on the edge of the forest, there lived an old man Сrawley with his wife Panaska. Although Panaska was not young, she was still good at housework and everything else. So, before Christmas, she sent Сrawley off into the woods for a Christmas tree.
For a long time Сrawley wandered through the forest, trying to choose a tree. One was curved, the other – low, another one had crooked branches, and another was bent to one side, but in the thickets of the swamp he found a suitable one. He cut down the Christmas tree, threw it on the sledge, and went home.
Suddenly Сrawley saw un ugly face staring at him from under the hummock, horned and shaggy, terrible as death itself. Сrawley’s hair turned grey with fear. It turned out to be the ice mirror that Wood Goblin made, but Сrawley did not recognize himself in it. Well, he was not easily scared, he grabbed an axe, and crushed the mirror.
The mirror scattered into thousands of pieces. One piece hit Сrawley in the eye, another – in the heart.
Сrawley ran through the forest, and it seemed to him that those weren’t fir trees and birches around him, but terrible forest kikimoras and wood goblins were grabbing him by the fur coat, and pulling him by the beard into the wilderness. It was the magic mirror shard beginning to work. He ran up to his hut, and instead of his beautiful wife, he found some kind of a kikimora sitting there.
He wanted to whack her too, but the kikimora stood with hands in the sides, and said, "Have you gone mad, you old creaker?" And she smacked Сrawley with a frying pan between his ears. Sparks showered from his eyes, and, along with them, a piece of the ice mirror fell out. Only then did he see that it was not Kikimora at all, but his beloved wife, Panaska, standing and holding a frying pan in her hands.
Well, they embraced in joy, put up a Christmas tree, and started celebrating Christmas. Only now another trouble came - the splinter came out of his eye, but the one in his heart remained. Hence the proverb "a grey beard, but a lusty heart."
Now on every Christmas Сrawley acts a little weird, and gets bashed with a frying pan between his ears by Panaska. Meanwhile in the swamp, the Wood Goblin yearns for his Kikimora, whom he has never married.

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from Lunar Folk Tales (Full Version), released January 1, 2019

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"Lunar Cape" exports instrumental music to Earth, clear (as the moon dwellers thought) to a broad earthling audience. Music that could be a soundtrack to a film, cartoon, video game, or a certain performance.The best way to describe the heart of the matter is the term “Filmusic”.
Release “Lunar Folk Tales” (2019) earned high praise from music media, including PROG MAGAZINE. ... more

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