Slovenka ljudska pravljica o tem kako nastane toča.
Nad Črno se je ne zbrala nekega dne huda nevihta. Neki hlapec je bil že dolgo na polju. Videl je, kako je iz oblaka, ki je krožil okoli hiše, skočila črna ženska in se spet dvignila v oblak. Hlapec se je skril za grm in gledal, kaj bo.
Tedaj je prišla na polje druga neznana ženska, se slekla in se po vsem truplu namazala s črnim mazilom ter potem govorila: »Smuk nad grmovjem, smuk nad skalovjem!« Mazilo je skrila pod grm in izginila v oblak, iz katerega je začela nato padati toča. Hlapec je vzel posodo z mazilom, kjer ga je pustila čarovnica in se namazal po vsem telesu.
Nato je izustil one besede, ki jih je govorila ženska, samo da si jih ni dobro zapomnil. Rekel je namreč: »Smuk po grmovju, smuk po skalovju.« Ko je to spregovoril, ga je zgrabila neznana sila in ga začela nositi po grmovju in skalovju, da je bil do krvi opraskan in pobit. Samo še nekoliko živ je naposled vendarle obvisel na borovi veji in si s tem rešil življenje.
(Slovenian above | English below)
One day there was a great storm in a place named Black. A servant has long been on the field and he saw a woman in black jump out of the cloud, circling around the house, and rose again into the cloud. The servant hid behind the bush and watched what was about to happen.
Then the other unknown woman came to the field, took off her closed, and spread black balm all over the body, and then she said: »Zig above bushes, Zag over the rocks!« The balm she hid in the bush and disappeared into the cloud, from which it began to fall big hail. The servant took the pot with a balm that was left and put it all over his body.
Then he said the words spoken by the witch, only that he did not remember them quite well. So he said: »Zig in the bushes, zag on the rocks.« When he spoke this, he was grabbed by the unknown force that took him in the bushes and thrown him directly on the rocks, so that he was scratched and hit and almost killed, but eventually, the force let him go and he clings onto one branch from a pine tree that apparently saved his life.
Slovenian folk Fairy tales
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Almira Ćatović 