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Updated: June 8, 2025
Then cried Tulip, clapping his hands, 'What better can I wish than to have you in the Wishing-Pot, in the place of all those poor folk whom you have imprisoned with their wishes!
He was standing again by the side of the Wishing-Pot, and the old woman sat cowering, and blinking her spider-eye at him, too much astonished to speak or move. Tulip looked at her with a pleasant and engaging air. 'Oh, good mother, what a treat you have given me! he said. 'How I wish I had money for another wish! what a pity it was ever to have wished myself back again!
But Tulip put his eye to the mouth of the Wishing-Pot; and there down below he saw the old witch, running round and round as hard as she could go, pursued by a herd of green spiders. And there without doubt she remains.
Tulip came, carrying the Wishing-Pot under his arm, very downcast and sad for love of the lady of the dear green feet. At that time all the Court was in half mourning; for the Princess Royal, who was the king's only child, and the most beautiful and accomplished of her sex, had gone perfectly distraught with grief, of which nothing could cure her.
From Tulip he learned, however, that no one knew the spell which opened the resources of the Wishing-Pot save the old witch woman who was shut up fast for ever in its inside. So it seemed to the king that the Pot could be of no use for curing the princess. But it was so beautiful, with its shooting stars and coloured fires, that, when Tulip brought it, they carried it in to show to her.
There were some wise folk who held that they had only gone elsewhere to seek the fortune that the Wishing-Pot had shown to them. Nevertheless, for the most part the wise woman and her Wishing-Pot had an ill name in that neighbourhood. To a lover's heart risk gives value; so one fine morning Tulip kissed his mother, counted ten, and set out for the woods.
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