Abstract: (Words and stories) Words say stories. Sometimes their stories are real, sometimes they are imaginary or presumptive, but not less important. The impact of words is like the events they describe: it brightens or saddens the face of a man, it kills or gives life. Man is sensitive to words, because they are the first mediator between him and reality. They have got a story of themselves, too. They cross time surrounding themselves by new meanings or unburdening from others. Sometimes, the story of a word is the history of a culture or civilization, mirroring the mentality of a place or time and telling stories about people. How has the meaning of words changed by passing from one to another language? What histories are kept in their contemporary form? What kind of unpredictable affinities often exist between words? An answer is wanted to be given in this article, by turning our attention on the etymological connection among words as: cosmic and cosmetic, profane and fanatical, or snake, eel and anguish.