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Updated: May 23, 2025
Thenceforward he found no more gold under his pillow, and it lay under the maiden's; but he was so much in love and so much bewitched that he thought of nothing except spending all his time with the maiden. Then the old witch said, 'We have the bird-heart, but we must also get the wishing-cloak from him. The maiden answered, 'We will leave him that; he has already lost his wealth!
Your wishing-cloak is hanging in a cupboard, and as for the bird-heart I will make a drink and give it back to you. But he changed his mind, and said, 'Keep it; it makes no difference, for I will take you to be my own dear true wife. And the wedding was celebrated, and they lived happy together till death. Cabinet des Fees.
'Drink to me now, my dearest, she said. Then he took the goblet, and when he had swallowed the drink the bird-heart came out of his mouth. The maiden had to get hold of it secretly and then swallow it herself, for the old witch wanted to have it.
It was not long before he was so much in love with the witch-maiden that he thought of nothing else, and only looked in her eyes, and whatever she wanted, that he gladly did. Then the old witch said, 'Now we must have the bird-heart; he will not feel when it is gone. She prepared a drink, and when it was ready she poured it in a goblet and gave it to the maiden, who had to hand it to the hunter.
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