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The Caraiman towers up, dark and threatening of aspect, with his mighty / peak of rock, that looks as though a great fragment of it had been / partly loosened, and were hanging in mid-air. That part of the rock is / shaped like a set of bagpipes -- and this is the tale they tell about it.
Long, long ago, when the sky was nearer to the earth than now, and / there was more water than land, there dwelt a mighty sorcerer in the / Carpathians. He was as tall as the tallest pine-tree, and he carried / upon his head a whole tree with green twigs and budding branches. His / beard, that was many yards long, was of moss, and so were his eyebrows. / His clothing was of bark, his voice was like rolling thunder, and / beneath his arm he carried a set of bagpipes, as big as a house. He / could do anything he liked with his bagpipes. When he played softly, / young green sprang up all round about him, as far as his eye could / reach; if he blew harder, he could create living things; but when he / blew fearfully loud, then such a storm arose that the mountains shook / and the sea shrank back from the rocks, so that more land was left / uncovered.