2. The Goori ... and the chimney fire

The childless couple Gregor and Viktoria Roth once lived in Wiler. Gregor, not exactly the cleverest but certainly smart, was known everywhere as Goori. His Viktoria was an insecure housekeeper, but she was terrified of fire. Every night before she went to bed, she took a look through the fireplace to make sure there wasn't a little spark floating around.

One day, during her usual inspection, she discovered the dreaded fire at the top of the chimney. She immediately called out to her husband: "Come, Goori, come! We have a fire in the fireplace." When he heard this, he jumped out of bed in one leap to the "Trächa" next to his Viktoria. And he saw the fire too. They quickly took some old robes and cloths, tied them to a long pole, pushed it into the fireplace and rubbed and rubbed with the pole, but the fire just wouldn't go out - until the moon finally set. At the same moment, the fire also went out and the two exhausted spouses finally realised that the moonlight had caused their chimney fire and went to bed, tired but reassured

The Goori...
...and the golden beast

When Goori once went to the cattle market in Sierre, he found a golden animal below Goppenstein. His encounter with this creature is best described by himself: "As I passed by Schlegmatte, I saw something shining and glittering from afar. As I got closer, there was a creature lying on the ground, the likes of which I have never seen in my entire life. It had a round body and a long tail, and everything shone like gold. I looked at the animal for a long time and wondered how I could catch it without it biting me. At last it occurred to me that I could pick the animal up by the tail so that it couldn't hurt me. That's exactly what I did and then I took a good look at the thing. It didn't move, but I could hear that it was alive and that its pulse was beating in time: "Tiggin-Täggin", "Tiggin-Täggin". When it wouldn't stop, I got angry and said to it: "Just wait, I'm going to exorcise "Tiggin-Täggin" for you, and hit it with a stick until its tripe fell out. As proof, I've brought the skin and tail of the animal here.

The Goori...
...and beauty

When the Goori once came to Gampel, half thirsty and dead tired, he went to the first pub he could find, where he looked in a mirror for the first time in his life. The next day he told his wife at home and all his friends on the village square: "Yesterday I saw the most desolate and ugly man locked behind a glass in the pub in Gampel, the likes of which I have never seen in my whole life. He would have been ugly and hideous enough for a devil if he had only had horns.

The Goori says to me: "Just make fun of me ...!