The prince
said, "Pour out the draught by the bed-side." At night, she was again
led in, and when she began to relate how ill all had fared with her,
he immediately recognized his beloved wife by her voice, sprang up and
cried, "Now I really am released! I have been as it were in a dream,
for the strange princess has bewitched me so that I have been compelled
to forget thee, but God has delivered me from the spell at the right
time." Then they both left the castle secretly in the night, for they
feared the father of the princess, who was a sorcerer, and they seated
themselves on the griffin which bore them across the Red Sea, and when
they were in the midst of it, she let fall the nut. Immediately a tall
nut-tree grew up, whereon the bird rested, and then carried them home,
where they found their child, who had grown tall and beautiful, and they
lived thenceforth happily until their death.
89 The Goose-Girl
THERE was once upon a time an old Queen whose husband had been dead for
many years, and she had a beautiful daughter. When the princess grew up
she was betrothed to a prince who lived at a great distance.
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