The nymph of Sanztegi

Like many others around the world, on a particular day the owner of Sanztegi cultivated the land with his oxen.

Suddenly the oxen escape to the Lamiñosin well, with the plough and everything. And out from the well comes a nymph with her hair tangled in the teeth of the plough. Then the man tells her that he will keep her safe and to go with him to his home. Off to the house the nymph goes, obeying the man. But no matter how much he tried, he could not get a word out of her. One night, the man put the milk on the stove to heat and went to the farmyard leaving the nymph alone in the kitchen. When the milk began to overflow she escaped through the fireplace shouting “the white goes up”, leaving her comb in the kitchen.

The next day the nymph returned and called the lady of Sanztegi:

Mrs. Geaxi;

Return my comb to me;

Otherwise I will make you lose;

your future offspring.

Then Geaxi went to the priest to know what to do and he told her to put the nymph´s comb on a long stick. She did so and called the nymph. The nymph came, took the comb and disappeared breaking the stick in two. And low and behold, that is the end of the story.

 

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