announcement and realized that the little girl was telling them the
truth although they wouldn't believe her. So, they decided to take
her back to her father and reveal him the truth.
After a few days, they reached the palace and told the king
everything that had happened. The king kept his promise and gave
them the reward while he punished the wicked stepmother
banishing her from the palace. On the next day, he organized a
great feast to celebrate his daughter's comeback and invited all
the citizens of his kingdom.
And the feast was really great....
I was also there, wearing red pants,
and I ate a spit with lentils!!!!
(Slavka, Bulgaria)
One of the king‘s sons decided to go to Bulgaria. He joined his older
brother who was travelling to Athens and when they reached
Athens, he parted with him. He travelled and travelled and
eventually he found himself in the western Rhodopes in Bulgaria,
near its border to Greece. He was told about a cave called The
Devil‘s Throat which was thought to be the door of the
Underworld.
The Devil's Throat was, according to legend, the route by which
Orpheus, the legendary Thracian singer, attempted to retrieve his
beloved from Hades in the Underworld. According to the story,
Orpheus, a famed musician, whose music was apparently sweet
enough to tame anything he so pleased, was very much in love with
Euridice. But on their wedding day, a venomous snake bit Euridice
and she died. Orpheus was desperate to have her back, so he went
to the Underworld to ask Hades and Persephone to let her live. At
first they refused, but Orpheus played his lyre, and persuaded
them. They agreed that he could lead Euridice out of the
Underworld, but if he looked back at her once before he was all