Our common tales ebook | Page 55

The kings people saw her there and went to the king and said to him: - Our long lasting King , this girl that our prince wants to marry, is a witch and will cast her sorcery on all of us here; she gets out at night and collects herbs under the moon. Be careful, our king, not to het harmed from her. And the king said: - I will secretly watch her and we will see. Indeed at night he did as he said . The girl was about to finish the last costume, when she ran out of weed again; she went out again to collect it,and when the king saw her he gave ,without wasting his time,the order to immediately imprison her.He had the intention to get her killed afterwards. The only thing that the girl continued to care about was finishing her costumes,even while in prison. So the day that they planned to kill her came!