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Updated: June 19, 2025
Then the two envious brothers came to him and said, 'O king! there is but one woman that is worthy of being your wife, and that is she who is the fairest in the whole world. 'But where can I find her? asked the king 'Oh, Ciccu will know, and he will bring her to you. Now the king had got so used to depending on Ciccu, that he really believed he could do everything.
By-and-bye they came to a stream, on the bank of which was a fish, flapping feebly about in its efforts to reach the water. 'Jump down, and throw the fish into the water; he will be useful to us, and Ciccu did so. Farther along the hillside they saw an eagle whose leg was caught in a snare.
Ciccu! whispered his brothers, horrified at this extravagance, 'are you mad? How do you ever mean to pay for it? 'Let me alone, replied Ciccu; 'I know what I am about. And when they had finished their dinner Ciccu told the others to go on, and he would wait to pay the bill.
The next day it was the same thing, and the next, till a great rage filled Ciccu's heart instead of the love that had been there. And when night came he took in his hand a thick stick, wrapped himself in the coverlet, and wished himself in the chamber of the princess. The princess was asleep, but Ciccu seized her arm and pulled her out of bed, and beat her till she gave back the purse.
The first thing Ciccu did was to order himself some fine clothes, and then buy a grand house, just opposite the palace. Next he locked his door, and ordered a shower of gold to cover the staircase, and when this was done, the door was flung wide open, and everyone came and peeped at the shining golden stairs.
Now Ciccu could not forgive his master, whom he had served so faithfully, for sending him to his death without a thought, so he answered, 'I rubbed myself over with fat, and I am not even singed. When he heard these words, the king, whose head was full of the princess, never stopped to inquire if they could be true, and smeared himself over with fat, and sprang into the oven.
'An eagle is playing with it just now, but he will be here with it in an instant; and a few minutes after there was a sound of wings, and an eagle came fluttering towards them with the veil in his beak. And Ciccu saw it was the very same eagle that he had freed from the snare. So he took the veil and rode back to the king.
And sure enough, very soon a little fish was seen rising to the surface with the lost ring in his mouth. And Ciccu knew him to be the fish that he had saved from death, and he took the ring and rode back with it to the king.
At last they came to the king and said to him, 'O king! your palace is beautiful indeed, but to be worthy of you it lacks one thing the sword of the Man-eater. 'How can I get it? asked the king. 'Oh, Ciccu can get it for you; ask him. So the king sent for Ciccu and said to him, 'Ciccu, you must at any price manage to get the sword of the Man-eater.
This you must rub all over you, and when you are quite covered, you may suffer yourself to be cast into the oven, for the fire will not hurt you, nor anything else. And Ciccu did exactly as the horse bade him, and went back to the king, and before the eyes of the fairest in the world he sprang into the oven.
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