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Ivan and the Wolf (Russia)
A small number of "Mountain Wolf's Gift" CDs contain a recording error that cuts off the last five seconds of the final story "Ivan and the Wolf". Below is a text version of the last eight minutes of the story. If you would like a corrected CD, mail your defective CD along with your name and address, and I will send you a corrected CD. I apologize for the inconvenience.
(Editor's Note: In the first part of this epic adventure tale, Prince Ivan and the Wolf search the world for the magical heart of the evil "wizard with no heart in his body" so they can defeat him and rescue a princess from his castle. Ivan and the Wolf have just found the heart and are now returning to confront the evil wizard.)
Ivan climbed on the back of the wolf and they road like the wind to an aging black castle in the mountains. Ivan knocked on the great gate. As he looked around, Ivan saw the statues of knights scattered around the gate. Then he remembered what the Wolf had said about this wizard and his magic. "Who knocks on my gate," hissed a voice from the castle wall. Ivan could see the wizard standing on the castle wall above him. "Wizard, we come for the princess that you keep prisoner in your castle," said Ivan. "Heh, heh, heh, many have come for her, none have left," hissed the reply. "You will be no different." Saying that the evil Wizard pointed his finger at Ivan. A blue light shot from the wizard's finger and struck Ivan in the chest. Ivan started to feel his body grow cold and hard. Skin and muscles and boots and clothes and the glass egg in his hand hardened stone. Suddenly, the wizard clutched his chest, feeling his own heart turning to rock. "What magic is this!" he said as he fell from the castle wall, dead. As the wizard died, his magic began to unravel, like a skein of yard. Ivan felt his arms and legs loosen and his chest turn back into flesh and bone. But when he looked at that glass egg, he saw that the heart inside it no longer moved. Ivan pushed open the rusty iron gate and climbed the tower to the room where the red-haired princess was waiting. "Who are you?" said the Princess. "My lady, my name is Prince Ivan and I've come to rescue you and return you to your father." Ivan and the Princess climbed on to the Gray Wolf's back and rode to the Red King's castle, where Ivan left the princess and received the firebird. When Ivan and the Wolf reached the place where they had first met, they stopped. "You must go from here on your own, Ivan. But if you ever need help again, you know where to find me," said the Wolf. Ivan took the firebird to his father, and received half of the kingdom as his own. People say that every day after that, King Ivan would ride into the forest and talk with his friend the Wolf, and that they ruled the land together with both wisdom and compassion. |
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