They go home together. Next day there is a fair in the neighboring
town, so the youth says to his father, "I will now change myself into
a beautiful horse, and you can sell me; but when you have sold me,
you must take off my bridle, or I cannot become a man again." Then the
father goes with the horse to the fair, and the master-thief comes and
buys the horse for a hundred thalers, but the father forgets, and does
not take off the bridle. So the man goes home with the horse, and puts
it in the stable. When the maid crosses the threshold, the horse says,
"Take off my bridle, take off my bridle." Then the maid stands still,
and says, "What, canst thou speak?" So she goes and takes the bridle
off, and the horse becomes a sparrow, and flies out at the door, and
the wizard becomes a sparrow also, and flies after him. Then they come
together and cast lots, but the master loses, and betakes himself to the
water and is a fish. Then the youth also becomes a fish, and they cast
lots again, and the master loses. So the master changes himself into
a cock, and the youth becomes a fox, and bites the master's head off,
and he died and has remained dead to this day.
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