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Updated: June 25, 2025
'You've talked to my Mastermaid, I'll be bound, for you haven't sucked this out of your own breast', said the Giant again. 'Yesterday master talked of this Mastermaid, and to-day it's the same story', said the Prince, who pretended to be silly and stupid. 'Bless you, master! why don't you show me the thing at once? I should so like to see it only once in my life.
At last the bride's sister rolled an apple across the yard to him, saying: 'Well, if you won't eat anything else, you may as well take a bite of this, for you must be both hungry and thirsty after so long a journey. So he took up the apple and bit a piece out of it; but he had scarce done so, before he forgot the Mastermaid, and how he was to drive back for her.
Marriage with alien wives, which in the case of the Mastermaid story has been postulated as means of transmission and as the one possible explanation of its nearly universal diffusion, may perhaps with more simplicity be assumed as the common basis in custom for independently arising myths of this type.
There sat the Mastermaid by the seashore, and waited and waited for the Prince, but no Prince came; so at last she went up from the shore, and after she had gone a bit she came to a little hut which lay by itself in a copse close by the king's palace. She went in and asked if she might lodge there. It was an old dame that owned the hut, and a cross-grained scolding hag she was as ever you saw.
'I'll soon see to that', said the Giant, who strode off to the bench, and there he saw the sack so full that the gold and silver dropped out on the floor as soon as ever he untied the string. 'You've been talking to my Mastermaid, that I can see', said the Giant; 'but if you have, I'll wring your head off.
'Thank you kindly, master', said the Prince; 'but it's only a joke of master's, I'll be bound. So next day the Giant took him in to the Mastermaid, and said to her: 'Now, you must cut his throat, and boil him in the great big pot you wot of; and when the broth is ready, just give me a call.
'An easy master you are indeed', said the Prince; 'but for all that, I'll just go in and have a chat with your Mastermaid; may be she'll be as soon mine as yours. So he went in to her, and she asked him what he had to do that day. 'Oh! nothing to be afraid of', said he; 'I've only to go up to the hill-side to fetch his horse. 'Very well, and how will you set about it?
All who met him stared and gaped at him, for he too cut capers like a madman, and he could not have looked in worse plight if he had spent the whole night in butting against a flock of rams. The third day the Sheriff passed that way, and he too saw the golden hut, and turned aside to find out who lived there; and he had scarce set eyes on the Mastermaid, before he began to woo her.
As soon as he saw this, he could tell how things had gone, and he got so angry he scarce knew which leg to stand upon. Away he went after the Prince and the Mastermaid, till the wind whistled behind him; but before long, he came to the water and couldn't cross it. 'Never mind', he said; 'I know a cure for this. I've only got to call on my stream-sucker.
'Well, only tell me when you've got hold of the calf's tail', said the Mastermaid. 'Now I have hold of it', said the Sheriff. 'God grant', said the Mastermaid, 'that you may hold the calf's tail, and the calf's tail you, and that you may make a tour of the world together till day dawns'.
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