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Fight Gossip
Medunsha Gorgo
Tal came home and told his wife "ya know that lady that moved into Jon's old place up the hill? You should meet her and welcome her to our village. It is amazing on a cold day like this how her hair was just standing out so. Her hair is so thin and straight, very strainge. She kept trying to tame it. Ha! it looked like a head full of wild snakes. She told me where she came from the weather never made her hair do this then she laughed and tied it down with some yarn. The air just crackles today, doesn't it? Ha! Look at my beard just now! It's floating too!""Where did she come from, a long way off" the wife asks? "Yes", Tal said, "she told me from far off south near Carnes. Her accent is proof even if she had not told me."
"Well, what is her name, where was her husband?"
"Oh, sad thing, she said her husband Gorgo died 2 seasons ago while fishing off the coast of Carnes.
You should see the likeness of him she made, a little statue. It is so well crafted it looks real. If it were lifesize and not just a small thing you could almost imagine the figure could draw breath and talk to you, it is that well crafted!"
"Well, I suppose she is pretty and all our young bloods will be at her door trying to impress and woo", sighed the woman. "Uh, I do not think so", Tal replied. "She is fairly plain and a bit past her prime."
"Poor dear", said the wife, "too bad. She will probably end up very loney way out there with nothing but sheep to tend to." "Not so I feel", relied Tal. "I think once people find out how talented a sculpter she is... you have to see that statue! Then people will seek her out! ""Make me one, make me one"", they'll beg! Ha, besides the coin and barter the wool old Jon's place will supply her I feel she'll surely double that with commissions on her sculpting. She'll do fine and will have many visitors." "What did she say her name was?"
"I think she said Medunsha, or something like that. It's sometimes hard to understand, her dialect is thick."
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One month later...
"I just commissioned a statue to be made of my husband, so if he doesn't come back from battle I'll have the likeness to remember him by. Yes, Medunsa will create it. Yes, she very good. Too bad she's so ugly. Did you hear the first staute she ever made was of her dead husband?"
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2 months later ...
"Did you hear the news? Jassie's husband is to march with the solders next week. First though he's going to hike into the hills to pray at the holy place for luck. Which shrine? It is the one that is near where that witch woman Medus lives.
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one year later...
More tonges awaggin: "Poor Jassie. Her husband never did return." "I hear he was killed in battle." "I think he never returned from praying in the hills and that he never even went to war!" "Did you hear that last season Jassie went in the hills and came back with a stone likness of her man. I bet that witch Medus Gorgo turned him into stone!"
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2 years later...
"Did you hear about the witch woman Medusa? Don't go up to the hills! She is so ugly and has hair that splays out in snakes and one look will turn you into stone!"
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Present day .....Stories of Mythology...
Medusa was believed to be an evil monster able to turn men to stone just their viewing of her hideously ugly face and hair of snakes...
story by b. banks aka hobbyscience © 2008
12/23/08
© by homecraftedsite
Created: 07/20/04