Once upon a time there lived a king who loved fighting. He was a good warrior and his fame was spread all over. The king married to a young and beautiful girl.
Once the king came back from a battle and he wanted his wife to bring him the first cup of water. The queen was pregnant but still had not shared the news with anybody. Unfortunately, she fell asleep while she was pouring the water. The king got angry and ordered his young wife to be chained in a chest and thrown into the Danube.
The guilty queen was lucky. The chest was found by a poor fisherman. He was called the Big Head. He opened the chest and what to see! – a strange beauty. He said to himself: ‘I could have caught no fish today but at least I found a wife.’
He took the woman to his poor house and started to look after her. She in turn cleaned the house and cooked him. Not long after this she gave birth to twins: a boy and a girl. The girl had a star on the forehead, and the boy had a moon horn.
While the children were growing the helped their parents in everything. The boy with the moon horn ploughed the small cornfield. The girl with the star sign sowed the grain seeds. As the girl touched the seeds and the boy the land, the crop was immediately turning into golden coins.
Thanks to their skills the parents soon got rich. The Big Head soon built a nice house.
Once the boy with the moon horn took the cattle to the pasture, saw a meadow and exclaimed:
‘What a nice meadow! I would dislocate the weapons here and here, I would position the soldiers with the guns.
When the Big Head heard this he was worried. He came home and shared this with his wife:
‘This is it, the king’s child thinks about king’s deeds!’
The boy heard this and decided to ask his mother on the next day who his real father was.
The worried mother told her children the truth.The boy with the moon horn decided to find his father and ask him why he did not try to find his family.
He reached his father’s kingdom and stopped in an inn. He ordered food and after he finished he called the owner to pay him. All the people in the inn were astonished when the boy took out a grain from their own cornfield and tossed it in the air. The grain immediately turned into golden coin. The king’s soldiers saw this and went to tell the king about the stranger who could turn grain into gold.
The king called the boy with the moon horn and asked him:
‘Where is this cornfield that produces golden wheat?’
‘It is where the king’s children have ploughed it.’
‘Who are you stranger?’ – the king asked in astonishment.
‘I am your son, Your Majesty!’ – the boy said and told him the whole story.
The king burst into tears when he found out the truth and deeply regretted for the years he had spent without his children. He wanted immediately to see his wife he had never forgotten, and his daughter he had dreamt so much of.
They went together to the Big Head’s house. When the king saw the two beautiful women he understood how stupidly he had reacted and thus ruined his life. He had never found joy in the battles any more after he had lost his wife.
The king took his family to the palace where their place was. And the Big Head left alone again, but in a big house.