Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle (Romanian: Douăsprezece mii de capete de vite) is a 1952 novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade.
It was written in Paris in December 1952 and published in 1963 in Nuvele, printed by Cercul de Studii "Destin" of Madrid.
[1] It was translated by Eric Tappe in Fantastic Tales, London, Dillon’s, 1969.
[2] The subject of this novella is a strange time travel of a cattle dealer on a street in Bucharest during the Second World War.
After a civil defense siren announces the imminence of an air raid, Iancu Gore is hiding in an anti-aircraft shelter.