The bewitched place

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The bewitched place , also The bewitched place and The bewitched place ( Russian Заколдованное место , Sakoldowannoje mesto ), is a short story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol , which was written in 1829-1830 and published in 1832. The story was recorded in the second part of the evenings in the hamlet near Dikanka .

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This story is supposed to be true. A grandson tells how his grandfather, a Cossack , was once confused by an "unclean force". The grandfather, a former freight trucker , grew melons, cucumbers, arbuses , radishes and peas in retirement . Once Ostap, one of the narrator's three brothers, was supposed to play the grandfather to dance. When the old man failed with one of his daring hops between the melon and cucumber fields during the cossack dance, the dancer assumed that the dance floor must be the devil's. While a little light flashed on the next night on the neighboring burial mound, Grandfather could only draw one conclusion. There had to be dug for a treasure. The old man marked the little grave with a branch and went to work the next day. Grandfather was able to push a heavy gravestone aside with difficulty. A cauldron came out beneath it. What did it contain? Gold? Far from it - nothing more than garbage.

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  • The bewitched place. German by Johannes von Guenther . P. 409-422 in Johannes von Guenther (Ed.): Nikolai Gogol: Gesammelte Werke. Volume I . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952

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