Once upon a time there was

a beautiful tree. It was

bunchy and had very sweet
and beautiful red fruits.
Anyone who was passing by
the tree, stopped and admired
it. The tree was proud and started getting bragging.
Gradually it became a very bad tree. It didnt let
anyone to cut his wrists.

It decided to pull sprout large and poisonous thorns

on its branches, so as nobody could close it. So, since
its fruits were useless, they were rotting and falling
off. The tree immediately was puncturing with thorns
and eprizing with poison the
hand of everyone was trying to
cut from its beautiful fruits.

One day, Athena (Minerva) the

goddess of wisdom, passed by the
tree. She sat beside the beautiful
tree and stared at it.
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A child playing nearby wanted to cut a fruit in

order to eat it. The evil tree pulled the thorns and
pierced the child with power. The child startled when
he saw blood running from his hand, he was aching
and started crying. The goddess Athena was
transformed into an old woman and went close to
him.

She

said: "Calm

down my child. I
will smear salve
with herbs on your
hands and you will
be ok soon".
Then the drug
acted immediately, the blood and the pain stopped
and the swelling from the bite left. The child calmed
down and left for his home.

After that, the old woman went under the tree

and began talking to it. She said:
"Let me cut your wrists because I'm hungry." The tree
began to laugh loudly and told the old woman:
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I will not give to a bad old woman to eat my

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beautiful fruit "! Then the old lady asked him:

"My tree, to whom will you give your wrist? If I was
pretty would you let me to cut? "
"Not at all, replied with audacity the evil tree. I do
not produce fruits and care so much for them so as to
be cut by you.

The old lady got very

angry and struck down
the stick that she was
holding. Immediately, she
was transformed into a
beautiful girl that was none other than the goddess
Athena. Then she said: "Conceited tree, today you
will change your fruits. Your wrists will be not red
but green like your wickedness and then yellow as
your hatred."

After the curse, the tree started to be transformed:

all the thorns fell and its
fruits became green at first
and yellow when they
would mature.
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After

some time, when a farmer saw this

strange tree, he cut a fruit

and tried it. As it was very
sour
he
spitted
it
immediately. Then the tree
began to cry. The leaves
began to turn yellow and
languish from its unhappiness. It came close to death
and all the time was saying how much regretted that
it was bad and did not allow people to eat its
beautiful fruits. Apparently it had understood its
arrogance and regretted for it.

One morning, the Goddess Athena went near to

the tree and said:
"Because I saw that you
have regretted, I will
change your fruits.
From now on you will
emit very nice scent that
will stand out from the scents of other trees.

I'll call you lemon tree which means penitent to

the language of the gods and you will become famous
everywhere. Everyone will want your fruits. Your
fruits will relish all their fruits ".

People who ate this soup went crazy from its

deliciousness! And so, they quickly learned to use the
lemon tree. Everyone was cutting and boughting
lemons. The reputation of the beauty and the
beneficial qualities of the lemon tree traveled
throughout the world. So, people started to planting
lemon trees in their gardens and farmlands and
lemons became necessary to our everyday life.
To conclude, the lemon tree was happy that at last
it became a favorite and useful tree for everyone.

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