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Article: The old woman who outwitted death (a story from Hungary).(The ENDLESS TALE: Storytelling: its events, tellers, stories, organizations, resources & points of discussion)(Short story)
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- March 22, 2008
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Once upon a time, whether true or not I cannot say, there was an old, old woman. She was older than the gardener who had planted the first tree, yet she was full of life, full of wisdom, and never dreamed that death might someday pass her way. She washed her clothes and scrubbed her cottage. She cooked her meals and baked her breads. She planted her garden and tended her flowers. She was kind to strangers, and was loved by her neighbors. She was busy with life.
One day, Death remembered the old woman and came knocking on her cottage door. When she saw who he was she told him she couldn't possibly leave that day. She had just started her laundry and she needed to ...