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Published: 2014-09-10 18:18:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 702; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 17
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Description City of Arta, Greece

 According to the folk ballad of the acritic songs family, 45 masons and 60 apprentices, under the leadership of the Head Builder, were building a bridge, but its foundations would collapse each night. Finally a bird with a human voice informed the Head Builder that, in order for the bridge to remain standing, he should sacrifice his wife.
As she is being buried alive in the foundations of the construction, she curses the bridge to flutter like a leaf, and those who pass it to fall like leaves also. She is then reminded that her brother is abroad and might pass the bridge himself, so she changes her curses so as to become actual blessings: "As the tall mountains tremble, so shall the bridge tremble, and as the birds of prey fall, so shall passers fall".
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jim373 [2020-06-03 20:45:02 +0000 UTC]

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BubbleCloud In reply to jim373 [2020-06-04 14:31:45 +0000 UTC]

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jim373 In reply to BubbleCloud [2020-06-04 17:08:59 +0000 UTC]

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BubbleCloud In reply to jim373 [2020-06-04 17:43:35 +0000 UTC]

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peterpateman [2016-04-21 11:07:37 +0000 UTC]

Nice story too!

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ameliemj [2014-09-19 23:33:29 +0000 UTC]

Wow all your pictures are so bright and beautiful.

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BubbleCloud In reply to ameliemj [2014-09-22 16:28:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much dear!

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mecengineer [2014-09-11 14:30:27 +0000 UTC]

impressive

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BubbleCloud In reply to mecengineer [2014-09-22 16:28:41 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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DusanPavlicek [2014-09-10 20:16:28 +0000 UTC]

What a bizarre story

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BubbleCloud In reply to DusanPavlicek [2014-09-10 21:30:14 +0000 UTC]

Yes, so it is!

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Whazizname [2014-09-10 19:10:27 +0000 UTC]

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BubbleCloud In reply to Whazizname [2014-09-10 21:30:20 +0000 UTC]

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