Complex sentence: Andrei meets and befriends a strange madman that is famous in the village for his insistence in trying to cross over a pool of termal waters with a lit candle, he claims that when finally achieving it, he will save the world.
Split into simpler sentences: Andrei meets and befriends a strange madman who is famous in the village for his insistence in trying to cross over a pool of termal waters with a lit candle. He claims that when finally achieving it, he will save the world.