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Updated: September 8, 2025
At last the Magician lost all patience, and commanded the door to be burst open. But when his servants did so, they found the room empty, and the frozen breath laughed aloud. Out of his mind with rage, the Magician ordered the Prince to be pursued. Then a wild chase began. 'I hear horses' hoofs behind us, said Hyacinthia to the Prince.
'This time you've made a mistake, thought Prince Milan, and going to his room he sat down at the window. Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia! Why, that is the easiest thing in the world. 'Not so easy as you think, cried the little bee, who was flying past. 'If I weren't to help you, you'd never guess.
Prince Milan rode on slowly with his bride without fearing any further pursuit. The sun was just setting, and its last rays lit up a large city they were approaching. Prince Milan was suddenly seized with an ardent desire to enter the town. 'Oh my beloved, implored Hyacinthia, 'please don't go; for I am frightened and fear some evil. 'What are you afraid of? asked the Prince.
She gave the Prince her hand and spoke. 'Many thanks, Prince Milan, for your courtesy. I am the daughter of a wicked magician, and my name is Hyacinthia. My father has thirty young daughters, and is a mighty ruler in the underworld, with many castles and great riches. He has been expecting you for ages, but you need have no fear if you will only follow my advice.
'We'll only go and look at what's to be seen in the town for about an hour, and then we'll continue our journey to my father's kingdom. 'The town is easy to get into, but more difficult to get out of, sighed Hyacinthia. 'But let it be as you wish. Go, and I will await you here, but I will first change myself into a white milestone; only I pray you be very careful.
When the Prince did not return, poor Hyacinthia wept bitterly and changing herself from a milestone into a little blue field flower, she said, 'I will grow here on the wayside till some passer-by tramples me under foot. And one of her tears remained as a dewdrop and sparkled on the little blue flower.
But they were all so precisely alike that they looked like one face reflected in thirty mirrors, and the fly was nowhere to be seen; the second time he passed them he still saw nothing; but the third time he perceived a little fly stealing down one cheek, causing it to blush a faint pink. Then the Prince seized the girl's hand and cried out, 'This is the Princess Hyacinthia!
With these words the beautiful Hyacinthia stamped on the ground with her little foot, and the earth opened and they both sank down into the lower world. The palace of the Magician was all hewn out of a single carbuncle, lighting up the whole surrounding region, and Prince Milan walked into it gaily.
'Prince Milan and Princess Hyacinthia have just gone on this minute; they stopped for a few minutes in the church to say their prayers, and bade me light this wax candle for you, and give you their love. 'I'd like to wring their necks, said the magician, and made all haste home, where he had every one of his servants beaten to within an inch of their lives.
The King and Queen of the town will come out to meet you, leading a little child with them. Whatever you do, don't kiss the child, or you will forget me and all that has happened to us. I will wait for you here for three days. The Prince hurried to the town, but Hyacinthia remained behind disguised as a white milestone on the road.
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