Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 10, 2025
Then he leapt up and bade his servants bring his chariot, that he might go down to the river-side, and appease the nymphs and the heroes whose spirits haunt the bank. So he went down in his golden chariot, and his daughters by his side, Medeia, the fair witch-maiden, and Chalciope, who had been Phrixus' wife, and behind him a crowd of servants and soldiers, for he was a rich and mighty prince.
Then Medeia, the dark witch-maiden, laid a cruel plot, for she killed her young brother who had come with her, and cast him into the sea, and said, "Ere my father can take up his body and bury it, he must wait long and be left far behind." And all the heroes shuddered, and looked one at the other in shame.
But all the heroes cried, "If you die we die with you, for without you we cannot win the fleece, and home we will never go without it." "You need not die," said Jason to the witch-maiden. "Flee home with us across the sea. Show us but how to win the fleece, and come with us and you shall be my queen, and rule over the rich princes in Iolcos by the sea."
And Talus tried to leap up, crying, 'You have betrayed me, false witch-maiden! But she lifted up her hands before him, and sang, till he sank beneath her spell.
And now after his long suffering came prosperity, which lasted to the end of his life; but he never got back the magic ring, nor has it ever again been seen by mortal eyes. Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed with the pretty witch-maiden? Andersen.
For the heart of the bull died within him, beneath the steadfast eye of that dark witch-maiden and the magic whisper of her lips. So both the bulls were tamed and yoked, and Jason bound them to the plow and goaded them onward with his lance, till he had plowed the sacred field. And all the heroes shouted, but Aietes bit his lips with rage, for half of Jason's work was done.
Then the eagle pounced upon the bird, and the moment she seized him in her talons she tore the ring from his neck before the man in bird's shape had time to prevent her. Then the eagle flew down to the earth with her prey, and the two stood face to face once more in human form. 'Now, villain, you are in my power! cried the Witch-maiden.
Then Alcinous gave them food, and water, and garments, and rich presents of all sorts; and he gave the same to the Minuai, and sent them all away in peace. So Jason kept the dark witch-maiden to breed him woe and shame; and the Colchi went northward into the Adriatic, and settled, and built towns along the shore.
So they left the witch-maiden on the shore; and she stood there in her beauty all alone, till the giant strode back red-hot from head to heel, while the grass hissed and smoked beneath his tread. And when he saw the maiden alone, he stopped; and she looked boldly up into his face without moving, and began her magic song:
The Witch-maiden had never rested night nor day until she had found out where the ring was.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking