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Aurangzeb reading the Quran.

Dominica Zalbidegoitia, from Dima, Arratia (Bizkaia), was the woman who (a century ago, give or take a decade) related the following oral legend to Resurrección María de Azkue:

The tail of the snake

There lived two brothers in Bargundia, a farmstead in Dima. One day, once their daily labour in the fields was completed, the two brothers returned to the house each with a stack of wheat on the shoulders, and on resting it down, a snake crawled out. One of the brothers started to beat the snake. The other told him:

─Leave it. It is God’s creature, so leave it in peace. (more…)