Os Dois Filhos e a Bruxa

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Era uma vez uma mulher que tinha um filho e uma filha. Um dia enviou os dois filhos pela estrada fora dizendo: "Ide até onde encontrardes cascas de feijão no caminho, e quando chegardes à floresta encontrar-me-eis lá a apanhar lenha." As crianças foram seguindo o rasto das cascas, mas não encontraram a mãe nem na floresta nem em sítio nenhum. Quando a noite caiu, viram ao longe uma luz e caminharam na sua direção.

Once there was a woman who had a son and a daughter. One day she sent both children along the road saying: "Go as far as you find bean shells on the path, and when you reach the forest you will find me there gathering firewood." The children went following the trail of shells, but found their mother neither in the forest nor anywhere else. When night fell, they saw a light in the distance and walked towards it.

Chegaram a uma velha que estava a fritar bolos. A velha era cega de um olho. O rapaz foi pelo lado cego e roubou um bolo, com tanta fome que tinha. A velha, pensando que era o gato, disse: "Ladrão de gato, deixa os meus bolos em paz, não são para ti!" O rapaz disse à irmã: "Vai tu agora." A menina respondeu: "Não posso, que me rio de certeza." Mas o irmão insistiu e ela lá foi, pelo lado cego da velha. Roubou um bolo — e logo se pôs a rir às gargalhadas.

They came upon an old woman who was frying cakes. The old woman was blind in one eye. The boy went to her blind side and stole a cake, so hungry was he. The old woman, thinking it was the cat, said: "You thieving cat, leave my cakes alone, they are not for you!" The boy said to his sister: "Now you go." The girl replied: "I cannot, I shall certainly laugh." But her brother insisted and off she went, to the old woman's blind side. She stole a cake — and immediately burst out laughing.

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Vocabulary Glossary

WordMeaning
bruxawitch
fornooven
pá de padeirobaker's peel (long paddle used to put bread in the oven)
caixa de castanhasbox of chestnuts
cauda de gatocat's tail
fadafairy
lenhafirewood
brasaembers, hot coals
astúciacunning, cleverness
cinzasashes

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