Well at the crossroads

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In Moldova

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[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

I like such instalations.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Any fae in the well?

I bet there are faery folk there in those woods. 

Athena

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Well done! (I mean the photo.)

I didn't realize that crane wells still exist...

Sorry, beautesauvage13, I clicked the wrong button...

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's ok I have made the same mistake before. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

They do here, yes.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I do it regularly too.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Very easy to use too.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I am often mistaken for a norse troll by the locals here, ha ha.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

What a beauty! I recollect now that I saw and even used them years ago, in a cossack village near Ural. But that was a very different world. Strong tough people. Gloomy manners. High impenetrable fences around houses. Finally, they become nice and hospitable, but first meetings are frightful...

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Cool.  I love faeries. 

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ha!  I'd have thought they would mistake you for Thor. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Most of the kids here never heard about Thor but know trolls well. When I just came here and people from neighbouring villages did not know that I was here yet, meeting them in the middle of the forest was fun. Their faces were like "What the .... is this two meters tall creature with straw instead of hair here in the middle of the forest?!"

[topum.livejournal.com]

We are not going to Russia this year as we planned to do earlier because we took on this additional project here plus we need much more time for Russia than we would have this year.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to be sorry or glad for you. Both, I suppose. Glad - because it could be dangerous or stressful (but definitely not boring!). Sorry - because, with your mind so amazingly open to the world, it'd be an interesting experience, I'm sure.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Yes I don't imagine they see many tall blond men there. 

So I guess to them trolls are tall blond men. 

I've always pictured trolls as these short hairy creatures that live under bridges and terrorize goats. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am exotic to them, especially to the kids. They know here that trolls are scandinavian (I think our fairy tales are popular with kids here) and after they were told that I am from there plus my unusual appearance, trolls was what came to their minds, ha ha. it was only in the beginning though not anymore.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ha!  I can just imagine the look on their face when they first saw you.

Yes I imagine once they got to know you, you became human again. 

I'm not too familiar with Scandinavian faery tales.  My childhood was filled with mostly Disney..a bit of Hans Christian Anderson CS Lewis..Grimm but not the original scary versions and Jim Henson. 

Athena

[gneu.livejournal.com]

Wow, Jesus IS everywhere!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, they would say the same if they saw a reference to Jesus somewhere in the US. They consider him theirs here and one of the cornerstones of their cultural identity. I even suspect that they think he was Moldovan.

[gneu.livejournal.com]

Well, he couldn't be American. They came to existence after he was born.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Moldova also arrived 1346 years too late to the world scene to be able to claim him.

[gneu.livejournal.com]

Well, everybody wants to be on top! To each his own.