Aferim! Page #2

and off he went.

If you've been crowing out lies,

we'll come back with the posse

and kill you like sparrows.

Bright lord, here's some gold,

so you won't leave angry.

Damn you and your gold!

Ionita, this is how

you scare the crows,

if you're a man!

Yes.

A good butcher doesn't fear

thousands of thousands of sheep!

F***ing bad luck!

A priest in skirts.

Ten years of misfortune.

- Away, Satan!

- Why do we do that?

'Cause devils flock around priests.

What happened, honourable Father?

This cursed wheel broke off.

Shall we help,

like good Samaritans?

God bless you.

The snakes would have swallowed me alive.

God is glad to see

two poor souls helping each other.

You have an axe there

and all you need.

What are you looking for?

A runaway Gypsy slave

who stole the boyar's money.

Damned crow!

I didn't see anyone.

So he ran away?

Yes, Father.

The crows have no shame anymore.

It'll be the end of us

when the ass gets at the head

and the c*nt is in command...

True, Father.

I just hope he doesn't run

to the Turks.

- What could he do there?

- He could become a mercenary in Nicopolis.

If he does, we've lost him...

Ready, Father.

God, bless Thy servants, amen!

Have some holy water.

To wash us of our many sins...

- Good for you.

- As the Ecclesiastes says:

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,

do it with thy might;

for there is no work, nor device,

nor knowledge, nor wisdom,

in the grave, where thou goest."

Well said, my sons!

Christ did not rise in vain.

So help us God!

I'll spend the night

at Manjoala's inn.

I never travel in the dark

for fear of outlaws.

As for us,

first business, then pleasure:

we'll search

'til the Seven Sisters rise...

- Isn't there a holiday coming, Father?

- So it is.

Forgive me, Lord!

I hanged You with thread,

and not with a gold chain,

like the bishops.

But isn't it faith that matters most?

Faith, but also deeds!

Another question, if we may?

Sure.

- You're more enlightened, you have praxis...

- Sure.

Gypsies, is they people

or Satan's spawn?

Some say they ain't human.

Human like us.

Aren't they Christians?

I myself baptised two slave cubs

recently.

- Monastery slaves?

- Right, two chickies.

Crows are descendants of Ham,

son of Noah,

cursed by his father to be black.

They came here from Egypt.

They are Egyptians.

- Is that so?

- Yes.

- What do we call crows to mock them?

- Black crows.

There are no white crows.

How else?

Maggots.

- What else?

- Darkies.

- Pharaohs.

- Good, aferim! Pharaohs.

'Cause they came here from Egypt,

where they were also slaves,

building palaces for the kings.

When a wise man opens his mouth,

open your ears!

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