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Updated: May 29, 2025
She took the band off the spinning-wheel, and twisted the head of the distaff the wrong way. She lifted the pot of fulling-water off the fire, and turned the room topsy-turvy, and threw down the carding-combs. Scarcely had she done so, when the Fairies returned, and knocked at the door. "Good housewife! let us in," they cried. "The door is shut and bolted, and I will not open it," answered she.
Then the Fairies gave up trying to get into the kitchen, and instead they climbed up by the windows into the room where the good housewife's husband was sleeping, and they swarmed upon his bed and tickled him until he tossed about and muttered as if he had a fever. Then all of a sudden the good housewife remembered what the Wise Man had said about the fulling-water.
She knocked at his door till he got up and put his head out of the window, to see who was there; then she told him the whole story. "Thou foolish woman," said he, "let this be a lesson to thee never to pray for things thou dost not need! Before thy husband can be loosed from the spell the Fairies must be got out of the house and the fulling-water, which they have boiled, must be thrown over him.
"Fulling-water, open the door," they implored. "I am off the fire," growled the fulling-water, "and all my strength is gone." "Oh! Is there nothing that will come to our aid, and open the door?" they cried. "I will," said a little barley-bannock, that had lain hidden, toasting on the hearth; and it rose and trundled like a wheel quickly across the floor.
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