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Updated: May 22, 2025
"You've been so good to me, shall I do you harm? Before that, I should suffer whatever punishment the giant will give me for not carrying out the task." "But all will be well," said the Master-Maid. "As soon as you have brought down the nest, all that you will have to do is to put the bones together and sprinkle on them the water from this flask, and then I shall be whole again just as before."
These incidents come in logically in the Master-Maid formula but are dragged in without real relevance into Cupid and Psyche; yet they occur as early as Basile where there is a dim reminiscence of the Oblivion Kiss. Cupid and Psyche is of special interest to the student of the folk-tale since it is a means of testing the mythological, the anthropological, and the Indian theories of its origin.
and had to leave him as before, without his waking up. But this time Prince Edgar had heard something of what she said in his sleep. And when he woke up he asked his chamberlain what had happened during the night. And he told the Prince that for two nights running a maiden had been in his room and sung to him, but he had not answered. Next day the Princess sought out the Master-Maid as before.
His four-poster rolls up and would crush us and we would be dead before the morning. Let me think, let me think." So the Master-Maid took an apple and divided it into six parts and put two at the foot of the bed and two at the door of the room and two at the foot of the stairs.
Next day, when the Princess went out to see what the Master-Maid had been doing, she found her dressed in a rich silver dress, and said to her: "Will you sell that dress to me?" And the Master-Maid said, "Yes, at a price." Then the Princess said, "What price?" "One night in Edgar's room," replied the Master-Maid.
So the Princess was sent back to her home, and Edgar married the Master-Maid and lived happy ever afterwards. There was once a woman, good but simple, who had been twice married. One day when her husband was in the field of course that was her second husband, you know a weary tramp came trudging by her door and asked for a drink of water.
So Prince Edgar trusted the Master-Maid and lay down and slept till late in the afternoon, when he woke up and looked, and there were the trees all felled and the Master-Maid was smiling by his side. "How did you do it?" he said. "That I may not say, but done it is, and that is all that you need care for."
And a huge glass mountain rose behind them, so that the giant had to stop and split his way through the glass mountain. Edgar and the Master-Maid rode on at full speed, but once again they heard Dapplegrim trampling behind them, and the Master-Maid took the flask of water from her side and cast it down back of her, and out of it gushed a huge stream.
But next morning the giant gave him an axe made of glass and told him that he must cut down every one of the trees before nightfall. When he had gone away, the Prince went to the Master-Maid and told her what his task was. "You cannot do that with such an axe, but never mind, I can help you. Sleep here in peace and when you wake up you will see what you will see."
Then the Master-Maid took three twigs and threw them behind her with magic spells; and they grew and they grew and they grew, till they became a huge thick forest. And the Master-Maid and Edgar jumped upon their horses again and rode away as fast as they could.
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