A Fairy Tale !!!

Once upon a time, many years ago, there lived a wizard who advised the people that life would be much easier if they could catch a monster and train him to do all their work thus saving their own energy. This they did.

The monster was locked away but he was continuously used for his energy to help those people . As the monster worked so hard he grew larger and his house was no longer big enough for him and he burst the walls. The monster was angry at being continuously abused that he took his havoc out on the area around his home. The monster continued north and then circled the earth leaving death and destruction in his wake.

Then one day the monster disappeared and was never seen again - some people say he fell off the end of the earth but he might still be out there somewhere. Unfortunately his terrible deeds remained for all to see and the affects lingered for many years.

The people were not very aware at first of how much destruction had taken place. Many thought that it would be a good idea to find a monster of their own to do all of their work and save their own energy.

The wizard ,who had advised the people , that to capture a monster was a good thing , after seeing the destruction he felt so sad and fled. He had been watching from afar, and knowing that it was partly his fault, decided that the people had suffered so much and that he did not want another monster found and then escaping. So he visited the country.

He informed the people that some day they might indeed find a monster but they should look after him properly, make sure that he is properly housed and well trained and content so that if he can be harnessed for work then he will be happy and will not want to escape :

.....because the people listened to the wizard he called on the powers of the earth to give them special qualities. For listening to the wizard he gave them the shield of knowledge to enable them to decide their future actions and to solve the problems the last monster had caused -. For their suffering he gave the children eyes that sparkled and alert so that they would always be watchful : and to save them from the need of having their own monster he gave the people the qualities of enthusiasm and endeavour.

Since all of these characteristics made them special to the rest of the world he made them promise that they had to show to all visitors not their suffering but the kindness in their hearts. And to this day the people of Belarus work diligently, seek knowledge, open their souls through their sparkling eyes and fulfil their promise to the wizard by showing kindness to all travellers who cross their land.