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Many years ago, in a village called Kefalovryso a 

sly father told his son:

John, I need some rest and you are old enough 

to start the hard work! You will take our ram and 

go to the market to sell it. I expect to bring me 

5.000 drachmas and the ram back! 

The troubled man took the animal and started his 

way to the market but whoever he was telling to 

that he sells the ram for 5.000 drachmas but he 

wants to keep the ram too, they made fun of him. 

Having done nothing and feeling deeply 

disappointed he decided to return back. An old 

man, who was getting home back from the fields he 

told him:

Son, what are you doing in the middle of the night 

with the animal on your side? You do not look 

familiar to me, so I guess you are not from our 

village…

John narrated the old man his short adventure and 

the old man invited to spend the night with him. 

Inside the clean and tidy home stood the villager’s 

daughter, called Panagiota. 

She looked the stranger with surprise but her father 

signed her not to talk. She prepared their dinner and 

John’s bedroom without asking for any details. The young 

man was so tired that he fell asleep immediately after he 

went to bed. Then, the father explained his daughter the 

stranger’s trouble. The next morning the daughter looked 

at the ram and told John:

I know the way how to earn money without losing the 

ram! We will cut off its hair and we will sell it! 

And so it happened!

John returned to his father released and very proud 

that managed to earn the money and keep the animal 

too. The father looked his son suspiciously and asked 

for details. At first he claimed that he acted on his 

own but soon or later he revealed everything about the 

old villager and his daughter. Then the father thought: 

‘my son needs a wife as smart as that girl. I should go 

and arrange her marriage with my son!’ 

After a long discussion with John, his father went to 

meet the villager and asked his daughter! 

At the beginning the villager denied since John’s 

father did not give him the best impression and 

thought that Panagiota would suffer in her new home. 

But his daughter reassured him that she will do fine! 

So, the two men agreed in the marriage!

John and Panagiota got married, organized a nice 

feast but before the night ended John’s father said to 

the couple:

In the morning, I will go to plant the seeds in our 

field. Tonight I want you two to make a baby that 

tomorrow will be 15 years old and will bring me bread 

to eat in the field.

The next morning the girl woke up, dressed in male clothes, 

put on a hat and went the bread to her father-in-law. When 

she arrived at the field, she said:

Good morning grandpa! I am your grandchild and I brought 

you some bread to eat! My parents have got a message for 

you.

The old man that had already understood that the boy was 

his daughter-in-law in disguise, said:

And what’s the message boy?

Until you come home in the evening, they want you to plant 

the wheat, to harvest a piece of it and to grind it in the mill 

because we have run out of flour and we want to make 

bread tomorrow!

The old man returned home in the evening. Once his daughter-

in-law saw his empty hands, she asked:

Father, haven’t you brought the flour I told you about?

But how could I plant the wheat, grow enough, harvest and 

grind it in only one day? Your request is impossible!

Your demand on our child is impossible too! We cannot have a 

15-year-old boy in one day as you cannot have the flour done!

Ok Panagiota, you are right! I asked you something 

completely impossible but you handle me! You are very smart, 

so from now on I will not ask for things that even I cannot 

do!

So, the old man came into his mind and from now then lived 

happily all together.