Sacred Sierra by Jason Webster

Author:Jason Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407093239
Publisher: Random House

The Story of the Three Lemons of Love

ONCE THERE WAS a prince who one night dreamed of the most beautiful girl in the world. When he woke up, he went to the King and said, ‘Father, I must leave, for I have dreamed of the woman I would marry and must go out and find her.’

And with that he packed his things and set out on his search.

After he had been travelling for some time he came across an old woman along the way.

‘Where are you going, fine prince?’ asked the old hag.

‘I’m off to find my bride, for I have dreamed of her,’ said the prince.

‘Well,’ said the old woman, ‘take these three lemons. When you find a spring, cut them in half and the woman you seek will appear before you. But make sure to give her some water to drink if she asks for it!’

The prince thanked her for the three lemons and they both went their separate ways.

Not long afterwards, the prince came across a spring underneath a carob tree.

‘Here I shall find my princess,’ he said to himself, and he cut one of the lemons in half as the old woman had told him to. No sooner had he done so than the girl who had appeared in his dreams suddenly stood before him. And she was even more beautiful than he had remembered. The prince was overwhelmed by her beauty, and when the girl asked him for some water to drink, he was so dumbstruck he couldn’t say anything. And so at the striking of the church bell the girl vanished as quickly as she had appeared.

The prince carried on his way until he came across another spring, not unlike the first. There he cut open the second lemon, and again the beautiful girl stood before him. But once again he was so struck by her that when she asked for something to drink he couldn’t move, and so she vanished once again.

The prince decided that he wouldn’t let this happen the next time, and so when he came across a third spring he pulled out a goblet and filled it with water first before cutting open the lemon. And when the girl appeared before him again, her beauty lighting up the whole world around him, he was just able to give her the goblet when she asked for something to drink. And so she drank, and this time she stayed.

Now the couple fell quickly in love, but the girl had nothing to wear.

‘Climb up into the tree there,’ said the prince, ‘and wait for me here. I’ll go to the palace and tell them what’s happened and I’ll bring back the finest robes for you to put on. Then we’ll go back and get married straightaway.’

So the girl climbed the tree and the prince ran off as fast as he could.

While he was gone, though, another young girl came to fetch water from the spring. But this girl was not as pretty as the first.

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