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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then he made the hood narrower. At last, however, the Sunball became aware how sad Letiko was. He sent her a second time to bring straw, and, slipping in after her, he heard how she lamented for her mother. Then he went home, called two foxes to him, and said: 'Will you take Letiko home? 'Yes, why not? 'But what will you eat and drink if you should become hungry and thirsty by the way?
One day, the Sunball having sent her to the straw shed to fetch straw, the girl sat down on the piles of straw and bemoaned herself, saying: 'As sighs this straw under my feet so sighs my heart after my mother. And this caused her to be so long away that the Sunball asked her, when she came back: 'Eh, Letiko, where have you been so long?
Once there was a woman who had no children, and this made her very unhappy. So she spoke one day to the Sunball, saying: 'Dear Sunball, send me only a little girl now, and when she is twelve years old you may take her back again. So soon after this the Sunball sent her a little girl, whom the woman called Letiko, and watched over with great care till she was twelve years old.
Then the lamia went away and swept her house, and when she was ready she came back and called out: 'Letiko, Letiko, come down and see what a beautiful apron I have. 'Oh! my apron is much finer than yours. 'If you will not come down I will cut down the tree and eat you. 'Do so, and then eat me. Then the lamia hewed with all her strength at the tree, but could not cut it down.
And the mother said, 'Keep silence! thou beast of ill-omen! wilt thou make me burst with misery? Then the cock spied, and called out: 'Cock-a-doodle-do! see here comes Letiko! And the mother said again: 'Be quiet! thou bird of ill-omen! wilt thou make me burst with misery?
Soon after that, while Letiko was away one day gathering herbs, the Sunball came to her, and said: 'Letiko, when you go home, tell your mother that she must bethink herself of what she promised me. Then Letiko went straight home, and said to her mother: 'While I was gathering herbs a fine tall gentleman came to me and charged me to tell you that you should remember what you promised him.
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