You should never speak badly about bears

Lidiya Vuvvupelevna Snovidova recounts that someone once came to them and said, “I met a bear over there, but I wasn’t afraid.” But my mother said, “Oh, my God, you don't have to say that.” But the man replied, “No, I don’t believe that. I don’t care.” Then he went on to speak badly about the bear. One day he went into the tundra, and there he said, “I’m going to sleep here now.” And near some cedar bushes he fell asleep. And suddenly that bear came that night. Turned this man around, and he smelled really smoked. There was an odor that even the bear wrinkled his nose at that. The bear turned him around, but the man was asleep and didn't hear anything. Thus, he took him and tore him apart, because he always talked badly about that bear. Because he once said: “I am going to take you down and will feed us with bear meat.”