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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Good mother, now see the misfortune that threatened us because I wished to see a Korrigan!" "Be still, son! To-morrow rests with God!" "Here is the peddler! Here he is!" The man who stepped into the house gave at the threshold a last shake to his traveling boots, which were so covered with snow that he seemed to be clad in white hose.
"And all day he wants to be nursed, and yet he is seven years old and yet he wants to be nursed. "Mary is very sad; she has lost her little Laoik; the Korrigan snatched him away! "That is the song, grandfather. And will brother still want to meet the wicked things, these Korrigan fairies who snatch away babes?" "What have you now to say in defense of your fairies, my pet?"
"Come, dear wife, your fears only show weakness." "Mothers are weak and timid, Jocelyn. We must not tempt God " Old Araim stops working for a moment at his net; his head drops on his chest. "What is the matter, folks? You seem to be in a brown study! Do you fear, like Madalen, that danger may threaten Karadeucq just because, on such a tempestuous night as this, he wishes to see a Korrigan?"
"It runs this way, grandfather: "Mary is very sad; she has lost her little Laoik; the Korrigan snatched him away. "As I went to the spring for water I left my Laoik in his cradle; when I came back to the house, my little one was gone far away. "And in its place the Korrigan left me this monster with a face as red as a toad's; he scratches and bites.
"Karadeucq, my son, make not such impious vows on such a stormy night as this it may bring ill luck I have never heard the enraged sea roar like this it sounds like thunder " "Good mother, I would brave murky darkness, tempest and thunder to see a Korrigan!" "Hold your tongue, rash boy, hold your tongue do not say such words!" "What a bold and venturesome lad you are, my boy!"
It brings bad luck " "What, mother, simply because I desire to see a Korrigan, some misfortune will befall me? What kind of misfortune?" "Hesus only knows, wild boy! I wish you would keep still; your talk frightens me." "What a tempest! The house shakes!" "And it is on such a night that Karadeucq dared to say he would give his life to see a Korrigan."
They vanish into the fountain and return to their crystal and coral palace at the bottom of the water. It is to the end of being able to escape quickly the sight of men that they always stay near the water. Oh, the pretty little fairies! I would give my best bow and twenty arrows, I would give all my fishing nets, I would give ten years, twenty years of my life to see a Korrigan!"
But I would be still more afraid if I were to run across a Korrigan, only two feet high, combing her hair, and looking at herself in some secluded fountain, in the clear water of which she is admiring those blonde tresses that they are so proud of." "What! Afraid of those pretty little fairies, brother Kervan! I, on the contrary, have often tried to meet one of them.
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