Hungarian folktale opening formula:

"There was a tall poplar tree with 77 branches, on each branch it had 77 crow nests, in each nest 77 crows.
Whoever doesn't listen to my tale, may the crows blind them. Whoever does listen, may they never see Heaven.
I'm going to start the story now, and you can all consider which one you'd choose."

... Hungarian folk tellers had no chill. 😆

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@TarkabarkaHolgy The survival rate of storytellers and their tales is quite surprising.

(ICYMI that's 456533 crows)

@buherator Eat your heart out, Alfred Hitchcock

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Hungarian folktellers were out there requiring people to use long instead of int to keep track of the number of crows blinding them.

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So what's the rest of the folktale?😁

@knowattitude It's a "cursed castle" type tale where someone needs to spend three nights in a castle to break a curse. Vaguely racist, givent he cursed princess is "all black" and then turns white in the end... 😬