Hairold: Difference between revisions

*The story Hairold shares where he dropped his scissors into a pond and was offered a pair of shiny, gold scissors by a bearded man is a reference to the fable [[wikipedia:The Honest Woodcutter|The Honest Woodcutter]], in which a woodcutter accidentally drops his axe into a river, and is asked by the god [[wikipedia:Hermes|Hermes]] if he had dropped a golden axe. The woodcutter is honest, saying that is not his axe, and is then offerred a silver one. The woodcutter denies it again, and is granted all three axes for his honesty. His envious neighbor later tries the same trick, claiming the golden axe as his own, and is left with no axe as punishment for his dishonesty, which is also what happened to Hairold.