The poor coal miner from the Black Forest, Peter Munk, “small intelligent”, began to be weighed down by low-income and, it seems, completely not an honorable craft inherited from his father. However, of all the ideas how to suddenly get a lot of money, he did not like any. Remembering the old tradition of the Glass Man, he tries to call him, but forgets the last two lines of the spell. In the village of lumberjacks, he is told the legend of Michel the Giant, who gives wealth, but requires a large fee for them. When Peter finally remembered the whole text of the call of the Glass Man, he met Michel, who first promised wealth, but when Peter tried to escape, threw him with his hook. Fortunately, Peter ran to the border of his households, and the hook broke, and a huge capercaillie killed the snake into which one of the slivers that had flown from the hook turned into a snake.
It turned out that this is not a capercaillie at all, but the Glass Man. He promised to fulfill three wishes, and the guy decided to dance well, always have as much money in his pocket as the richest man in their city, a glass factory. The third desire Glass Man, disappointed with so much material desires, advised to leave "for later", but gave money for the opening of the plant. But Peter soon launched the plant, and spent all the time at the gaming table. Once, Tolstoy Ezekil (the richest man in the city) didn’t have money in his pocket - therefore, Peter turned out to be nothing ... Michel the Giant gave him a lot of ringing coins, but in return took his living heart (on the shelves in Michel’s dwelling cans with the hearts of many rich people), and inserted stone in his chest.
But the money did not bring happiness to Peter with a cold heart, and after he hit his wife Lisbeth, who served a cup of wine and bread to a passerby old man (it was Glass Man), and she disappeared, the time came for a third desire: Peter wanted to regain a warm heart . The Glass Man taught him how to do this: the guy told Michel that he did not believe that he had taken his heart, and for the sake of verification he put him back. The brave Munch, whose warm heart was harder than stone, was not afraid of the Giant, and when he sent elements to him one after another (fire, water, ...), an unknown force carried Peter outside the borders of Michel’s possessions, and the giant himself became small, like worm.
Having met the Glass Man, Munk wanted to die in order to end his shameful life, but he brought his mother and wife instead of an ax. The chic house of Peter burned down, there was no wealth, but in place of the old father’s house there was a new one. And when Munkov had a son, Glass Man presented his last gift: the cones picked up by Peter in his forest turned into brand new thalers.
