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Updated: June 4, 2025
'Peace be with you, grandfather, said she. 'The same to you, replied the man-eater. 'What brings you here, Udea? 'I came to ask for a lump of burning coal, to light my fire with. 'Do you want a big lump or a little lump? 'Why, what difference does it make? said she.
What is there to frighten me? 'No one will try to hurt us, said the brothers, 'for they fear us greatly. But for yourself, we implore you to do nothing without consulting the cat, who has grown up in the house, and take care never to neglect her advice. 'All right, replied Udea, 'and whatever I eat she shall have half.
'Perhaps she has fallen into the fire, too. So one of the others ran upstairs and found his sister stretched on the floor. 'Udea! Udea! he cried, but she did not move or reply. But to him who says "string," then kneel. So the camel started, and when it had accomplished half its journey it met three men, who ran after it in order to catch it; but they could not.
'Does the man-eater come here every night? asked the brothers. 'Every night, said Udea, 'and he breaks one door in and then goes away.
Then the brothers dismounted and passed through the six open doors, till they stood before the iron one, which was still shut. 'Udea, open! they cried, 'it is only your brothers! And she arose and unlocked the door, and throwing herself on the neck of the eldest burst into tears.
'If you have a big lump you must give me a strip of your skin from your ear to your thumb, and if you have a little lump, you must give me a strip from your ear to your little finger. Udea, who thought that one sounded as bad as the other, said she would take the big lump, and when the man-eater had cut the skin, she went home again.
A few days later a herald was sent through the kingdom to proclaim the joyful news of the marriage of the Queen of the Flowery Isles with the young prince. They lived happily for many years, and ruled their people well. As for the bad queen, whose vanity and jealousy had caused so much mischief, the Fairies took all her power away for a punishment. Udea and Her Seven Brothers
He did not of course recognise Udea, but he knew the negro and his wife, and welcomed them gladly, adding, 'But who does the other negress belong to? 'Oh, that is your sister! said they. 'My sister! but she is coal black! 'That may be, but she is your sister for all that.
Only one of his finger-nails was blown away, and fell into an upper chamber where Udea was standing, and stuck under one of the nails of her own fingers. And she sank lifeless to the earth. Meanwhile her brothers sat below waiting for her and wondering why she did not come. 'What can have happened to her! exclaimed the eldest brother.
And when the man-eater came, and called as usual, 'Udea, what did you see your grandfather doing? she answered, 'I saw him pull off the ass' skin and devour the ass, and he fell in the fire, and the fire burned him up. Then the man-eater was filled with rage, and he flung himself upon the iron door and burst it in.
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