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Updated: May 26, 2025
The horse went as fast as it could, and plump! it tumbled into the very same spring where Siminok had fallen, and there Busujok, too, ended his days. But at the same time the morning star, the emperor's son Busujok, and the evening star, the maid-servant's son Siminok, appeared in the sky. Into the saddle then I sprung, This tale to tell to old and young. The Two Step-Sisters.
There he met an old woman, whom he asked about his brother. The crone told him that Busujok had become the son of the emperor who reigned in the neighborhood. When Siminok reached this emperor's palace, the princess, as soon as she saw him, thought that he was her husband and came running to meet him.
But Busujok suspected him; he thought that Siminok had won his wife's love, and would not believe him when he told him the simple truth that such an idea had never entered his head. Now that Busujok had once begun to be jealous of his bride, he acted like a lunatic!
While he was doing so, Siminok stopped and said: "What is the matter with your head, Brother Busujok?" "What should be the matter? How do I know, Brother Siminok?" "Just see," replied Siminok, "two locks of your hair are tied together." "How is that possible?" said Busujok. This discovery vexed the prince so much that he determined to go out into the wide world.
After some time the latter took out the prince's handkerchief, looked at it, and saw three drops of blood on it. Then he said: "Oh! my royal brother is dead. I shall go and look for him." Taking some provisions for the journey, he set out in search of Busujok. He passed through cities and villages, crossed fields and forests, wandering on and on till he reached a small hut.
Then the youths embraced each other, and Busujok departed; Siminok remained behind, gazing longingly after him till he was out of sight. Siminok then returned to the palace and related all that had happened. The empress was insane with grief. She wrung her hands and wept till it was pitiful to see her. But she did not know what to do, and at last comforted herself a little by gazing at Siminok.
The princess would not believe this, so Siminok said: "The Lord will show the truth. Let the sword hanging on yonder nail scratch whichever of us two is mistaken." Instantly the sword sprang down and cut the princess' finger. Then she believed Siminok, and gave him the hospitality which was his due. The next day he learned that Busujok had gone out hunting and had not yet returned.
Busujok returned home and questioned his wife; she told just the same story as Siminok. Then, to be still more certain of the truth, he, too, ordered the sword to jump down from the wall and scratch the one who was wrong. The sword leaped down and wounded his middle finger.
"Brother Siminok," he said, "I'm going out into the wide world, because I can't understand why my mother tied my hair while she was playing with it." "Listen to reason, Brother Busujok, and do nothing of the sort," replied Siminok; "if the empress tied your hair, it certainly was not for any evil purpose."
He set the hounds upon her to tear her to pieces. "Stop," cried the Wood Witch, "call off your dogs that they may not tear me, and I'll give you back your brother with his horse, hounds, and all." Siminok called off the dogs. The Wood Witch swallowed three times and up came Busujok, his horse, and his dogs. Siminok now set his hounds upon her, and they tore her into mince-meat.
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