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Limber Lumberer

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In the an­cient times there was a strong be­lief that one tak­ing some­thing from the na­ture has to give some­thing in re­turn. But what can you give back to the trees, what do they even like? But the an­cients were much at­ten­tive and they fig­ured out what the stiff wood­en trees do val­ue the most!


And so be­com­ing a lum­ber­er sure was a lot of work be­yond just tak­ing an axe and go­ing to van­dal­ize the near­est woods like we do to­day when we need a new wood­en buck­et for exmaple. The an­cient lum­ber­ers didn't even have an axe when go­ing in­to the for­est! They much pre­ferred to im­press the tree so much that it just drops dead by it­self out of en­vy...

These lim­ber lum­ber­ers were com­mon­ly known as the Sko­morokhs in the Slav­ic king­doms. Al­though they were per­fect­ly ca­pa­ble to en­ter­tain trees and hu­mans alike, their pri­ma­ry work­place was there in the wood­lands. Usu­al­ly the young lum­ber­er and a cou­ple of strong as­sis­tants to car­ry the fall­en.

But some trees were so twist­ed and thus so hard to please that it took a very spe­cial per­for­mance with min­i­mal clothes, oil­ing up and some se­ri­ous bend­ing to do. The warm­ing-up in the bath­house could take hours! But even­tu­al­ly some great body and skills and a good pot of oil would make al­most any tree fall down to the feet of the high-lev­el Lum­ber­er! :3
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Прекрасная стилизация. Забавная история.

Beautiful stylization. Funny story. I like it.