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Parchment-style illustration of a Tyrolean gold-seeker beside a mountain stream with a praying girl, Austrian folktale.

The Gold-Seeker of the Tendres Farm: Austrian Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Greed and Reverence for the Mountain Spirits

High in the Austrian Alps, between the quiet valleys of Reschen and Nauders, stood the Tendres Farm—a proud old homestead surrounded by green slopes and the cold silver glint of mountain streams. The people of the valley said the land was blessed: its pastures were lush, its cows sturdy, and its barns always full. But blessings in the mountains can

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