but despite this, they still believed that happiness must exist some where in the world. the old folk used to say that happiness was a beautiful bird living on a snowy mountain far, far a way in the east. wherever the bird flew, happiness went with it. every year people went to look for this bird, but not a single one of them every returned. the bird of happiness was said to be guarded by three old monsters, who could kill a man simple blowing through their long beards.