Meeting with the Owner of the forest

In one of the forests near Moscow in the early 80-ies took place the meeting of fans of Amateur song. After finishing the group on duty remained in the forest to eliminate the consequences of stay of people there: again pour the fires, to dig garbage pits and, according to the rules, the remains of food to give as treats forest dwellers.

The pieces that were supposed to impale on branches salt to sprinkle on hemp, and grains to scatter under the trees. The group on duty divided into several teams, each of which was to explore a certain area of the forest. Five friends got a site bounded on one side by a swamp, the diameter of which was about one kilometer.

Behind him stretched the field, and for field — half-empty village. One girl named Galina, everywhere was accompanied by a teacup poodle. The dog ran into the bushes and suddenly, salav and screaming, came out and jumped on hands of the mistress.

A moment later, from the bushes appeared the red muzzle of the deer. Not paying any attention to whether frozen in surprise, whether from fear of people, the animal quietly marched past toward the swamp. Everyone thought that his appearance was something unreal. Then everything was repeated from the bushes one after the other came out black and white stag. When the deer fled into the thickets, Galina realized that she was struck by their appearance: all animals had a beard and straight horns like a goat. Only she had time to think about it, both from the same bushes came a man with a white beard down to the waist. He was dressed in a very long cloak pulled down over his eyes hooded so that his face was not visible. The old man proceeded in the same direction as that of the goat-deer. For some time the young people were in the power swept their stupor. Then, without saying a word, everyone ran through the thicket to the swamp. On its shore could be seen the traces that are left in the water.

Young people tried to go there the footprints, but then one of them fell into the icy water. Then suggested that man and the animals entered the water and went around the perimeter of the swamp. A search began. The young people reached the fields, where he saw a fire, near which sat a man of about fifty. He was bald, beardless, and in his hands he held a bottle of clear liquid, probably vodka. With a man peacefully grazing for three goats white, red and black.

Back at the camp, the young people told about what happened to them. After a few days the young man decided that they met in the forest the Master. The search resumed, but two trips to nothing lead. The locals claimed that such a person in the village no. Still Galina scolds herself for what passed for a miracle, because, according to legend, the owner of the forest is only in special cases and if asked to do so, perform any one wish.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»