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Master Bëninhë went and took his backpack and
said:
- In the name of God, may the Devil be in my
backpack!
That evening he sent word to three other master
blacksmiths that the following day he would need
their help. In the morning, the blacksmiths
arrived to work. Master Bëninhë put his backpack
on his anvil and said:
- Beat it with your hammers!
The blacksmiths beat the devil up until he was flat
as a pancake, while the Devil screamed and said:
- Let me go and I will make you live as many
more years as you have already lived up to now.
Master Bëninhë stayed in his workshop to work
for all the years that the Devil had granted to
him. When he returned to hell, the Devil told his
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