The Girl Without Hands

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The Girl Without Hands

A poor miller had very little money left. He only had his old mill and a big apple tree behind it. One day, he went to the forest to get wood. An old man appeared and asked, "Why do you work so hard? I can make you rich. Just promise to give me whatever is standing behind your mill." The miller thought, "That must be my apple tree." He agreed and wrote a promise for the stranger. The old man laughed and said, "I will come back in three years to take what is mine." Then he left. When the miller got home, his wife asked, "Where did this sudden money come from?

Suddenly, every box and chest was full. No one had brought them in, and I do not know how it happened. He answered, "It comes from a stranger I met in the forest. He promised me great treasure. In return, I promised him what stands behind the mill. We can give him the big apple-tree for it." "Ah, husband," said the terrified wife, "that must have been the devil." "He did not mean the apple-tree," he said. "He meant our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.

The miller’s daughter was a kind and gentle girl. She lived her three years very well and stayed clean and happy. When the time was up, she washed her hands and made a safe circle on the floor with chalk. The devil came early, but he could not get close to her. He was very angry. He told the miller, "Take all the water away so she cannot wash her hands. If she is clean, I cannot hurt her." The miller was scared, so he did it. The next morning, the devil came back. But the girl had cried on her hands, and they were clean again. The devil could not get near her. He shouted at the miller, "Cut her hands off, or I cannot take her away!

The miller was shocked. He said, "How could I cut off my own child's hands?" Then the evil one got angry. He said, "If you do not do it, you are mine, and I will take you myself.

The father was very scared. He promised to do what the stranger said. He went to the girl and said, "My child, I am so afraid. If I do not cut off your hands, the bad man will take me away. I am sorry, but I have to do this. Please help me." The girl was brave. She said, "Do what you must, Father. I am your child." She put her hands down and let him cut them off. The bad man came back, but the girl had cried so much that her hands were very clean. The bad man had to give up. He could not hurt her anymore.

The miller told her, "Because of you, I have become very rich. I will take care of you forever." But she said, "I cannot stay here. I will go out into the world. Kind people will give me everything I need.

She tied her arms behind her back. At sunrise, she started walking. She walked all day until the sun went down. Then she saw a royal garden. The moon was shining, and she saw trees with pretty fruit. But she could not go in because the garden was surrounded by water. She had walked all day and had not eaten anything. Her tummy hurt from being so hungry. She thought, "If I could just get inside, I could eat the fruit. If I don't eat, I will get sick." So, she knelt down and prayed to God. Suddenly, an angel appeared. The angel made a dam in the water. The moat became dry, and she could walk right through it. Now she went into the garden, and the angel walked with her.

She saw a tree full of shiny pears, but they were all counted. She walked over to them and was very hungry. She picked one pear and ate it right off the tree. She did not take any more. The gardener was watching her, but the angel was standing right there. The gardener was scared and thought the girl was a magic spirit. He was too afraid to say a word. When she finished the pear, she felt happy and went to hide behind the bushes. The next morning, the King came to the garden. He counted the pears and saw that one was missing. He asked the gardener what happened to it. The gardener said, "Last night, a spirit came in. It had no hands, so it ate a pear with its mouth.

The king asked, "How did the spirit cross the water, and where did it go after eating the pear?" The gardener answered, "Someone in a white coat came from the sky. They built a dam to hold back the water so the spirit could walk across the moat. I think it was an angel. I was scared, so I stayed quiet and did not cry out. When the spirit finished the pear, it went back home. The king said, 'If that is true, I will stay and watch with you tonight.'

When the sky turned dark, the king walked into the garden with a kind priest. They sat quietly under the tree to watch. At midnight, the girl came out of the bushes. She went to the tree and ate a sweet pear with her mouth. An angel in a white dress stood right beside her. The priest walked over to them and asked softly, "Are you a spirit from heaven, or a human being?" The girl answered gently, "I am not a spirit. I am just a sad girl who has been left alone by everyone, except God." The king smiled at her and said, "If the whole world has left you, I will never leave you." He took her home to his big palace. Because she was so kind and beautiful, he loved her very much. He had special silver hands made for her, and he made her his wife.

After a year, the king had to go on a long trip. He asked his young queen to stay with his mother. He told her, "Please take good care of her. If she has a baby, tell me right away." Soon, the queen had a healthy baby boy. The old mother was happy. She wrote a letter to tell the king the good news. But on the way, the messenger got tired. He sat by a stream and fell asleep. The devil saw him and wanted to be mean. He took the letter and changed it. The new letter said the queen had a scary monster. When the king read it, he was very sad and worried. But he wrote back, "Please take good care of her and the baby. I will come home soon.

The messenger went back with the letter, but he rested at the same place and fell asleep again. Then the devil came once more. He put a new letter in the messenger’s pocket. It said that the king wanted the queen and her baby to be put to sleep forever. The old mother was very sad when she read the letter. She could not believe it. She wrote back to the king, but she got no answer. The devil kept swapping the letters. In the last letter, it said she must keep the queen's tongue and eyes as a special gift to show she had done what she was told.

The old mother cried because she did not want anyone to get hurt. She took a deer and cut out its tongue and eyes. She kept them safe. Then she spoke to the queen. "I cannot hurt you," she said. "But you cannot stay here. You must go away with your child. Never come back." The poor woman tied her baby on her back. She walked away with big tears in her eyes. She went into a dark forest. She fell to her knees and prayed to God. An angel appeared and led her to a small house. A sign on the door said, "Everyone is welcome here." A beautiful girl in white came out and said, "Welcome, lady queen. Come inside.

Then she took the little boy off her back and held him close to her chest so he could drink. She put him down in a soft, pretty bed. The poor woman looked at her and asked, "How did you know I used to be a queen?

The white maiden smiled and said, "I am an angel sent by God to watch over you and your little one." The queen stayed in the little house for seven years. She was very happy and well taken care of. Because she was so kind and good, God did a wonderful magic trick. Her hands grew back, just like new.

At last the king came home again from his journey. He wanted to see his wife and the child right away. Then his kind old mother started to cry. She looked at him and said, "You were so unkind to ask me to take those two sweet lives." She showed him the letters that the bad man had made up. Then she went on, "I did what you asked, and I showed the tokens—the tongue and the eyes.

The king promised to find them. "I will travel as far as the sky is blue," he said. "I will not eat or drink until I see my dear wife and my child again. I hope they are safe and not lost.

The king traveled for seven long years. He looked in every cave and behind every rock, but he could not find her. He thought she had died of hunger. For all that time, he did not eat or drink. But God took care of him. At last, he came to a big forest. He saw a small house with a sign that said, "Everyone is welcome here." The beautiful white maiden came out. She took his hand and led him inside. She said, "Welcome, kind king," and asked where he came from. He told her, "I have traveled for seven years. I am looking for my wife and her child, but I cannot find them." The angel brought him food and drink, but he did not want any. He just wanted to rest for a little while. So, he lay down to sleep and covered his face with a soft cloth.

The angel went into the room where the queen sat with her son. She usually called him Sorrowful. The angel said, "Go outside with your child. Your husband has come." So she went to the place where he lay. The soft cloth fell from his face. Then she said, "Sorrowful, pick up your father's cloth and cover his face again." The child picked it up and put it over his face again. The king heard this in his sleep. He smiled and let the cloth fall down once more. But the child grew impatient. He said, "Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world?

I learned to say the prayer. You told me my father was in heaven and was the good God. But how could I know a wild man like this? He is not my father. When the king heard this, he stood up and asked who they were. Then she said, "I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful." He saw her living hands and said, "My wife had silver hands." She answered, "The good God has made my real hands grow back." An angel went into the inner room and brought the silver hands to show him. Now he knew for sure it was his dear wife and his dear child. He kissed them and was so happy. He said, "A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.

Then the angel of God ate with them once more. After that, they went home to the king's kind old mother. There was great joy everywhere. The king and queen were married again. They lived happily together until the very end.

The miller was shocked. He said, "How could I cut off my own child's hands?" Then the evil one got angry. He said, "If you do not do it, you are mine, and I will take you myself.

The king cried for his wife and his little son. He cried even harder than she had. The old mother felt sorry for him. She spoke softly. "Do not cry," she said. "She is still alive. I took a hind, a kind deer, and used its skin to make these tokens. I tied the baby to his mother's back. I told them to go far away into the wide world. I made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry." The king promised to find them. "I will travel as far as the sky is blue," he said. "I will not eat or drink until I see my dear wife and my child again. I hope they are safe and not lost.

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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house. All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.\n\nThe miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.\n\nThe father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.\n\nThe miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.\n\nThereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.\n\nWhen it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.\n\nAfter a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.\n\nThe messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.\n\nBut the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"\n\nThe white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.\n\nAt last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"\n\nThereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.\n\nThereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end.",
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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house. All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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"clean_text": "A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house. All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.\n\nThe miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.\n\nThe father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.\n\nThe miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.\n\nThereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.\n\nWhen it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.\n\nAfter a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.\n\nThe messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.\n\nBut the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"\n\nThe white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.\n\nAt last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"\n\nThereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.\n\nThereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end.",
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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house.",
"All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her.",
"The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her.",
"She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth.",
"The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside.",
"Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\"",
"Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world.",
"I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\"",
"Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house. All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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"speech_safe_text": "A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house. All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.\n\nThe miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her. The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.\n\nThe father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.\n\nThe miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.\n\nThereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her. She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth. The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.\n\nWhen it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.\n\nAfter a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.\n\nThe messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.\n\nBut the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside. Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"\n\nThe white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.\n\nAt last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"\n\nThereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.\n\nThereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world. I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\" Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end.",
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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house.",
"All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her.",
"The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her.",
"She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth.",
"The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside.",
"Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\"",
"Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world.",
"I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\"",
"Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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"A certain miller had little by little fallen into poverty, and had nothing left but his mill and a large apple-tree behind it. Once when he had gone into the forest to fetch wood, an old man stepped up to him whom he had never seen before, and said, why do you plague yourself with cutting wood, I will make you rich, if you will promise me what is standing behind your mill. What can that be but my apple-tree, thought the miller, and said, yes, and gave a written promise to the stranger. He, however, laughed mockingly and said, when three years have passed, I will come and carry away what belongs to me, and then he went. When the miller got home, his wife came to meet him and said, tell me, miller, from whence comes this sudden wealth into our house.",
"All at once every box and chest was filled, no one brought it in, and I know not how it happened. He answered, it comes from a stranger who met me in the forest, and promised me great treasure. I' in return, have promised him what stands behind the mill - we can very well give him the big apple-tree for it. Ah, husband, said the terrified wife, that must have been the devil. He did not mean the apple-tree, but our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller's daughter was a beautiful, pious girl, and lived through the three years in the fear of God and without sin. When therefore the time was over, and the day came when the evil one was to fetch her, she washed herself clean, and made a circle round herself with chalk. The devil appeared quite early, but he could not come near to her. Angrily, he said to the miller, take all water away from her, that she may no longer be able to wash herself, for otherwise I have no power over her. The miller was afraid, and did so. The next morning the devil came again, but she had wept on her hands, and they were quite clean. Again he could not get near her, and furiously said to the miller, cut her hands off, or else I have no power over her.",
"The miller was shocked and answered, how could I cut off my own child's hands. Then the evil one threatened him and said, if you do not do it you are mine, and I will take you yourself.",
"The father became alarmed, and promised to obey him. So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off. The devil came for the third time, but she had wept so long and so much on the stumps, that after all they were quite clean. Then he had to give in, and had lost all right over her.",
"The miller said to her, I have by means of you received such great wealth that I will keep you most handsomely as long as you live. But she replied, here I cannot stay, I will go forth, compassionate people will give me as much as I require.",
"Thereupon she caused her maimed arms to be bound to her back, and by sunrise she set out on her way, and walked the whole day until night fell. Then she came to a royal garden, and by the shimmering of the moon she saw that trees covered with beautiful fruits grew in it, but she could not enter, for it was surrounded by water. And as she had walked the whole day and not eaten one mouthful, and hunger tormented her, she thought, ah, if I were but inside, that I might eat of the fruit, else must I die of hunger. Then she knelt down, called on God the Lord, and prayed. And suddenly an angel came towards her, who made a dam in the water, so that the moat became dry and she could walk through it. And now she went into the garden and the angel went with her.",
"She saw a tree covered with beautiful pears, but they were all counted. Then she went to them, and to still her hunger, ate one with her mouth from the tree, but no more. The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit. When she had eaten the pear, she was satisfied, and went and concealed herself among the bushes. The king to whom the garden belonged, came down to it next morning, and counted, and saw that one of the pears was missing, and asked the gardener what had become of it, as it was not lying beneath the tree, but was gone. Then answered the gardener, last night, a spirit came in, who had no hands, and ate off one of the pears with its mouth.",
"The king said, how did the spirit get over the water, and where did it go after it had eaten the pear. The gardener answered, someone came in a snow-white garment from heaven who made a dam, and kept back the water, that the spirit might walk through the moat. And as it must have been an angel, I was afraid, and asked no questions, and did not cry out. When the spirit had eaten the pear, it went back again. The king said, if it be as you say, I will watch with you to-night.",
"When it grew dark the king came into the garden and brought a priest with him, who was to speak to the spirit. All three seated themselves beneath the tree and watched. At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments. Then the priest went out to them and said, \"Do you come from heaven or from earth? Are you a spirit, or a human being?\" She replied, \"I am no spirit, but an unhappy mortal deserted by all but God.\" The king said, \"If you are forsaken by all the world, yet will I not forsake you.\" He took her with him into his royal palace, and as she was so beautiful and good, he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her to wife.",
"After a year the king had to go on a journey, so he commended his young queen to the care of his mother and said, if she is brought to child-bed take care of her, nurse her well, and tell me of it at once in a letter. Then she gave birth to a fine boy. So the old mother made haste to write and announce the joyful news to him. But the messenger rested by a brook on the way, and as he was fatigued by the great distance, he fell asleep. Then came the devil, who was always seeking to injure the good queen, and exchanged the letter for another, in which was written that the queen had brought a monster into the world. When the king read the letter he was shocked and much troubled, but he wrote in answer that they were to take great care of the queen and nurse her well until his arrival.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but rested at the same place and again fell asleep. Then came the devil once more, and put a different letter in his pocket, in which it was written that they were to put the queen and her child to death. The old mother was terribly shocked when she received the letter, and could not believe it. She wrote back again to the king, but received no other answer, because each time the devil substituted a false letter, and in the last letter it was also written that she was to preserve the queen's tongue and eyes as a token that she had obeyed.",
"But the old mother wept to think such innocent blood was to be shed, and had a hind brought by night and cut out her tongue and eyes, and kept them. Then said she to the queen, \"I cannot have you killed as the king commands, but here you may stay no longer. Go forth into the wide world with your child, and never come here again.\" The poor woman tied her child on her back, and went away with eyes full of tears. She came into a great wild forest, and then she fell on her knees and prayed to God, and the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a little house on which was a sign with the words, here all dwell free. A snow-white maiden came out of the little house and said, welcome, lady queen, and conducted her inside.",
"Then she unbound the little boy from her back, and held him to her breast that he might feed, and laid him in a beautifully-made little bed. Then said the poor woman, \"From whence do you know that I was a queen?\"",
"The white maiden answered, \"I am an angel sent by God, to watch over you and your child.\" The queen stayed seven years in the little house, and was well cared for, and by God's grace, because of her piety, her hands which had been cut off, grew once more.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey, and his first wish was to see his wife and the child. Then his aged mother began to weep and said, \"You wicked man, why did you write to me that I was to take those two innocent lives,\" and she showed him the two letters which the evil one had forged, and then continued, \"I did as you bade me, and she showed the tokens, the tongue and eyes.\"",
"Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, \"be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.\" Then spoke the king, \"I will go as far as the sky is blue, and will neither eat nor drink until I have found again my dear wife and my child, if in the meantime they have not been killed, or died of hunger.\"",
"Thereupon the king traveled about for seven long years, and sought her in every cleft of the rocks and in every cave, but he found her not, and thought she had died of want. During the whole time he neither ate nor drank, but God supported him. At length he came into a great forest, and found therein the little house whose sign was, here all dwell free. Then forth came the white maiden, took him by the hand, led him in, and said, \"Welcome, lord king,\" and asked him from whence he came. He answered, \"Soon shall I have traveled about for the space of seven years, and I seek my wife and her child, but cannot find them.\" The angel offered him meat and drink, but he did not take anything, and only wished to rest a little. Then he lay down to sleep, and laid a handkerchief over his face.",
"Thereupon the angel went into the chamber where the queen sat with her son, whom she usually called Sorrowful, and said to her, go out with your child, your husband has come. So she went to the place where he lay, and the handkerchief fell from his face. Then said she, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up, and put it over his face again. The king in his sleep heard what passed, and had pleasure in letting the handkerchief fall once more. But the child grew impatient, and said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world.",
"I have learnt to say the prayer - Our Father, which art in heaven - you have told me that my father was in heaven, and was the good God, and how can I know a wild man like this. He is not my father.\" When the king heard that, he got up, and asked who they were. Then said she, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful\". And he saw her living hands, and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has caused my natural hands to grow again,\" and the angel went into the inner room, and brought the silver hands, and showed them to him. Hereupon he knew for a certainty that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and was glad, and said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\"",
"Then the angel of God ate with them once again, and after that they went home to the king's aged mother. There were great rejoicings everywhere, and the king and queen were married again, and lived contentedly to their happy end."
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"A poor miller had very little money left. He only had his old mill and a big apple tree behind it. One day, he went to the forest to get wood. An old man appeared and asked, \"Why do you work so hard? I can make you rich. Just promise to give me whatever is standing behind your mill.\" The miller thought, \"That must be my apple tree.\" He agreed and wrote a promise for the stranger. The old man laughed and said, \"I will come back in three years to take what is mine.\" Then he left. When the miller got home, his wife asked, \"Where did this sudden money come from?",
"Suddenly, every box and chest was full. No one had brought them in, and I do not know how it happened. He answered, \"It comes from a stranger I met in the forest. He promised me great treasure. In return, I promised him what stands behind the mill. We can give him the big apple-tree for it.\" \"Ah, husband,\" said the terrified wife, \"that must have been the devil.\" \"He did not mean the apple-tree,\" he said. \"He meant our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller’s daughter was a kind and gentle girl. She lived her three years very well and stayed clean and happy. When the time was up, she washed her hands and made a safe circle on the floor with chalk. The devil came early, but he could not get close to her. He was very angry. He told the miller, \"Take all the water away so she cannot wash her hands. If she is clean, I cannot hurt her.\" The miller was scared, so he did it. The next morning, the devil came back. But the girl had cried on her hands, and they were clean again. The devil could not get near her. He shouted at the miller, \"Cut her hands off, or I cannot take her away!",
"The miller was shocked. He said, \"How could I cut off my own child's hands?\" Then the evil one got angry. He said, \"If you do not do it, you are mine, and I will take you myself.",
"The father was very scared. He promised to do what the stranger said. He went to the girl and said, \"My child, I am so afraid. If I do not cut off your hands, the bad man will take me away. I am sorry, but I have to do this. Please help me.\" The girl was brave. She said, \"Do what you must, Father. I am your child.\" She put her hands down and let him cut them off. The bad man came back, but the girl had cried so much that her hands were very clean. The bad man had to give up. He could not hurt her anymore.",
"The miller told her, \"Because of you, I have become very rich. I will take care of you forever.\" But she said, \"I cannot stay here. I will go out into the world. Kind people will give me everything I need.",
"She tied her arms behind her back. At sunrise, she started walking. She walked all day until the sun went down. Then she saw a royal garden. The moon was shining, and she saw trees with pretty fruit. But she could not go in because the garden was surrounded by water. She had walked all day and had not eaten anything. Her tummy hurt from being so hungry. She thought, \"If I could just get inside, I could eat the fruit. If I don't eat, I will get sick.\" So, she knelt down and prayed to God. Suddenly, an angel appeared. The angel made a dam in the water. The moat became dry, and she could walk right through it. Now she went into the garden, and the angel walked with her.",
"She saw a tree full of shiny pears, but they were all counted. She walked over to them and was very hungry. She picked one pear and ate it right off the tree. She did not take any more. The gardener was watching her, but the angel was standing right there. The gardener was scared and thought the girl was a magic spirit. He was too afraid to say a word. When she finished the pear, she felt happy and went to hide behind the bushes. The next morning, the King came to the garden. He counted the pears and saw that one was missing. He asked the gardener what happened to it. The gardener said, \"Last night, a spirit came in. It had no hands, so it ate a pear with its mouth.",
"The king asked, \"How did the spirit cross the water, and where did it go after eating the pear?\" The gardener answered, \"Someone in a white coat came from the sky. They built a dam to hold back the water so the spirit could walk across the moat. I think it was an angel. I was scared, so I stayed quiet and did not cry out. When the spirit finished the pear, it went back home. The king said, 'If that is true, I will stay and watch with you tonight.'",
"When the sky turned dark, the king walked into the garden with a kind priest. They sat quietly under the tree to watch. At midnight, the girl came out of the bushes. She went to the tree and ate a sweet pear with her mouth. An angel in a white dress stood right beside her. The priest walked over to them and asked softly, \"Are you a spirit from heaven, or a human being?\" The girl answered gently, \"I am not a spirit. I am just a sad girl who has been left alone by everyone, except God.\" The king smiled at her and said, \"If the whole world has left you, I will never leave you.\" He took her home to his big palace. Because she was so kind and beautiful, he loved her very much. He had special silver hands made for her, and he made her his wife.",
"After a year, the king had to go on a long trip. He asked his young queen to stay with his mother. He told her, \"Please take good care of her. If she has a baby, tell me right away.\" Soon, the queen had a healthy baby boy. The old mother was happy. She wrote a letter to tell the king the good news. But on the way, the messenger got tired. He sat by a stream and fell asleep. The devil saw him and wanted to be mean. He took the letter and changed it. The new letter said the queen had a scary monster. When the king read it, he was very sad and worried. But he wrote back, \"Please take good care of her and the baby. I will come home soon.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but he rested at the same place and fell asleep again. Then the devil came once more. He put a new letter in the messenger’s pocket. It said that the king wanted the queen and her baby to be put to sleep forever. The old mother was very sad when she read the letter. She could not believe it. She wrote back to the king, but she got no answer. The devil kept swapping the letters. In the last letter, it said she must keep the queen's tongue and eyes as a special gift to show she had done what she was told.",
"The old mother cried because she did not want anyone to get hurt. She took a deer and cut out its tongue and eyes. She kept them safe. Then she spoke to the queen. \"I cannot hurt you,\" she said. \"But you cannot stay here. You must go away with your child. Never come back.\" The poor woman tied her baby on her back. She walked away with big tears in her eyes. She went into a dark forest. She fell to her knees and prayed to God. An angel appeared and led her to a small house. A sign on the door said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" A beautiful girl in white came out and said, \"Welcome, lady queen. Come inside.",
"Then she took the little boy off her back and held him close to her chest so he could drink. She put him down in a soft, pretty bed. The poor woman looked at her and asked, \"How did you know I used to be a queen?",
"The white maiden smiled and said, \"I am an angel sent by God to watch over you and your little one.\" The queen stayed in the little house for seven years. She was very happy and well taken care of. Because she was so kind and good, God did a wonderful magic trick. Her hands grew back, just like new.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey. He wanted to see his wife and the child right away. Then his kind old mother started to cry. She looked at him and said, \"You were so unkind to ask me to take those two sweet lives.\" She showed him the letters that the bad man had made up. Then she went on, \"I did what you asked, and I showed the tokens—the tongue and the eyes.",
"The king cried for his wife and his little son. He cried even harder than she had. The old mother felt sorry for him. She spoke softly. \"Do not cry,\" she said. \"She is still alive. I took a hind, a kind deer, and used its skin to make these tokens. I tied the baby to his mother's back. I told them to go far away into the wide world. I made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry.\"\n\nThe king promised to find them. \"I will travel as far as the sky is blue,\" he said. \"I will not eat or drink until I see my dear wife and my child again. I hope they are safe and not lost.",
"The king traveled for seven long years. He looked in every cave and behind every rock, but he could not find her. He thought she had died of hunger. For all that time, he did not eat or drink. But God took care of him. At last, he came to a big forest. He saw a small house with a sign that said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" The beautiful white maiden came out. She took his hand and led him inside. She said, \"Welcome, kind king,\" and asked where he came from. He told her, \"I have traveled for seven years. I am looking for my wife and her child, but I cannot find them.\" The angel brought him food and drink, but he did not want any. He just wanted to rest for a little while. So, he lay down to sleep and covered his face with a soft cloth.",
"The angel went into the room where the queen sat with her son. She usually called him Sorrowful. The angel said, \"Go outside with your child. Your husband has come.\" So she went to the place where he lay. The soft cloth fell from his face. Then she said, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's cloth and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up and put it over his face again. The king heard this in his sleep. He smiled and let the cloth fall down once more. But the child grew impatient. He said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world?",
"I learned to say the prayer. You told me my father was in heaven and was the good God. But how could I know a wild man like this? He is not my father. When the king heard this, he stood up and asked who they were. Then she said, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful.\" He saw her living hands and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has made my real hands grow back.\" An angel went into the inner room and brought the silver hands to show him. Now he knew for sure it was his dear wife and his dear child. He kissed them and was so happy. He said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.",
"Then the angel of God ate with them once more. After that, they went home to the king's kind old mother. There was great joy everywhere. The king and queen were married again. They lived happily together until the very end."
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"child_friendly_text": "A poor miller had very little money left. He only had his old mill and a big apple tree behind it. One day, he went to the forest to get wood. An old man appeared and asked, \"Why do you work so hard? I can make you rich. Just promise to give me whatever is standing behind your mill.\" The miller thought, \"That must be my apple tree.\" He agreed and wrote a promise for the stranger. The old man laughed and said, \"I will come back in three years to take what is mine.\" Then he left. When the miller got home, his wife asked, \"Where did this sudden money come from?\n\nSuddenly, every box and chest was full. No one had brought them in, and I do not know how it happened. He answered, \"It comes from a stranger I met in the forest. He promised me great treasure. In return, I promised him what stands behind the mill. We can give him the big apple-tree for it.\" \"Ah, husband,\" said the terrified wife, \"that must have been the devil.\" \"He did not mean the apple-tree,\" he said. \"He meant our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.\n\nThe miller’s daughter was a kind and gentle girl. She lived her three years very well and stayed clean and happy. When the time was up, she washed her hands and made a safe circle on the floor with chalk. The devil came early, but he could not get close to her. He was very angry. He told the miller, \"Take all the water away so she cannot wash her hands. If she is clean, I cannot hurt her.\" The miller was scared, so he did it. The next morning, the devil came back. But the girl had cried on her hands, and they were clean again. The devil could not get near her. He shouted at the miller, \"Cut her hands off, or I cannot take her away!\n\nThe miller was shocked. He said, \"How could I cut off my own child's hands?\" Then the evil one got angry. He said, \"If you do not do it, you are mine, and I will take you myself.\n\nThe father was very scared. He promised to do what the stranger said. He went to the girl and said, \"My child, I am so afraid. If I do not cut off your hands, the bad man will take me away. I am sorry, but I have to do this. Please help me.\" The girl was brave. She said, \"Do what you must, Father. I am your child.\" She put her hands down and let him cut them off. The bad man came back, but the girl had cried so much that her hands were very clean. The bad man had to give up. He could not hurt her anymore.\n\nThe miller told her, \"Because of you, I have become very rich. I will take care of you forever.\" But she said, \"I cannot stay here. I will go out into the world. Kind people will give me everything I need.\n\nShe tied her arms behind her back. At sunrise, she started walking. She walked all day until the sun went down. Then she saw a royal garden. The moon was shining, and she saw trees with pretty fruit. But she could not go in because the garden was surrounded by water. She had walked all day and had not eaten anything. Her tummy hurt from being so hungry. She thought, \"If I could just get inside, I could eat the fruit. If I don't eat, I will get sick.\" So, she knelt down and prayed to God. Suddenly, an angel appeared. The angel made a dam in the water. The moat became dry, and she could walk right through it. Now she went into the garden, and the angel walked with her.\n\nShe saw a tree full of shiny pears, but they were all counted. She walked over to them and was very hungry. She picked one pear and ate it right off the tree. She did not take any more. The gardener was watching her, but the angel was standing right there. The gardener was scared and thought the girl was a magic spirit. He was too afraid to say a word. When she finished the pear, she felt happy and went to hide behind the bushes. The next morning, the King came to the garden. He counted the pears and saw that one was missing. He asked the gardener what happened to it. The gardener said, \"Last night, a spirit came in. It had no hands, so it ate a pear with its mouth.\n\nThe king asked, \"How did the spirit cross the water, and where did it go after eating the pear?\" The gardener answered, \"Someone in a white coat came from the sky. They built a dam to hold back the water so the spirit could walk across the moat. I think it was an angel. I was scared, so I stayed quiet and did not cry out. When the spirit finished the pear, it went back home. The king said, 'If that is true, I will stay and watch with you tonight.'\n\nWhen the sky turned dark, the king walked into the garden with a kind priest. They sat quietly under the tree to watch. At midnight, the girl came out of the bushes. She went to the tree and ate a sweet pear with her mouth. An angel in a white dress stood right beside her. The priest walked over to them and asked softly, \"Are you a spirit from heaven, or a human being?\" The girl answered gently, \"I am not a spirit. I am just a sad girl who has been left alone by everyone, except God.\" The king smiled at her and said, \"If the whole world has left you, I will never leave you.\" He took her home to his big palace. Because she was so kind and beautiful, he loved her very much. He had special silver hands made for her, and he made her his wife.\n\nAfter a year, the king had to go on a long trip. He asked his young queen to stay with his mother. He told her, \"Please take good care of her. If she has a baby, tell me right away.\" Soon, the queen had a healthy baby boy. The old mother was happy. She wrote a letter to tell the king the good news. But on the way, the messenger got tired. He sat by a stream and fell asleep. The devil saw him and wanted to be mean. He took the letter and changed it. The new letter said the queen had a scary monster. When the king read it, he was very sad and worried. But he wrote back, \"Please take good care of her and the baby. I will come home soon.\n\nThe messenger went back with the letter, but he rested at the same place and fell asleep again. Then the devil came once more. He put a new letter in the messenger’s pocket. It said that the king wanted the queen and her baby to be put to sleep forever. The old mother was very sad when she read the letter. She could not believe it. She wrote back to the king, but she got no answer. The devil kept swapping the letters. In the last letter, it said she must keep the queen's tongue and eyes as a special gift to show she had done what she was told.\n\nThe old mother cried because she did not want anyone to get hurt. She took a deer and cut out its tongue and eyes. She kept them safe. Then she spoke to the queen. \"I cannot hurt you,\" she said. \"But you cannot stay here. You must go away with your child. Never come back.\" The poor woman tied her baby on her back. She walked away with big tears in her eyes. She went into a dark forest. She fell to her knees and prayed to God. An angel appeared and led her to a small house. A sign on the door said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" A beautiful girl in white came out and said, \"Welcome, lady queen. Come inside.\n\nThen she took the little boy off her back and held him close to her chest so he could drink. She put him down in a soft, pretty bed. The poor woman looked at her and asked, \"How did you know I used to be a queen?\n\nThe white maiden smiled and said, \"I am an angel sent by God to watch over you and your little one.\" The queen stayed in the little house for seven years. She was very happy and well taken care of. Because she was so kind and good, God did a wonderful magic trick. Her hands grew back, just like new.\n\nAt last the king came home again from his journey. He wanted to see his wife and the child right away. Then his kind old mother started to cry. She looked at him and said, \"You were so unkind to ask me to take those two sweet lives.\" She showed him the letters that the bad man had made up. Then she went on, \"I did what you asked, and I showed the tokens—the tongue and the eyes.\n\nThe king cried for his wife and his little son. He cried even harder than she had. The old mother felt sorry for him. She spoke softly. \"Do not cry,\" she said. \"She is still alive. I took a hind, a kind deer, and used its skin to make these tokens. I tied the baby to his mother's back. I told them to go far away into the wide world. I made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry.\"\n\nThe king promised to find them. \"I will travel as far as the sky is blue,\" he said. \"I will not eat or drink until I see my dear wife and my child again. I hope they are safe and not lost.\n\nThe king traveled for seven long years. He looked in every cave and behind every rock, but he could not find her. He thought she had died of hunger. For all that time, he did not eat or drink. But God took care of him. At last, he came to a big forest. He saw a small house with a sign that said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" The beautiful white maiden came out. She took his hand and led him inside. She said, \"Welcome, kind king,\" and asked where he came from. He told her, \"I have traveled for seven years. I am looking for my wife and her child, but I cannot find them.\" The angel brought him food and drink, but he did not want any. He just wanted to rest for a little while. So, he lay down to sleep and covered his face with a soft cloth.\n\nThe angel went into the room where the queen sat with her son. She usually called him Sorrowful. The angel said, \"Go outside with your child. Your husband has come.\" So she went to the place where he lay. The soft cloth fell from his face. Then she said, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's cloth and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up and put it over his face again. The king heard this in his sleep. He smiled and let the cloth fall down once more. But the child grew impatient. He said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world?\n\nI learned to say the prayer. You told me my father was in heaven and was the good God. But how could I know a wild man like this? He is not my father. When the king heard this, he stood up and asked who they were. Then she said, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful.\" He saw her living hands and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has made my real hands grow back.\" An angel went into the inner room and brought the silver hands to show him. Now he knew for sure it was his dear wife and his dear child. He kissed them and was so happy. He said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.\n\nThen the angel of God ate with them once more. After that, they went home to the king's kind old mother. There was great joy everywhere. The king and queen were married again. They lived happily together until the very end.",
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"A poor miller had very little money left. He only had his old mill and a big apple tree behind it. One day, he went to the forest to get wood. An old man appeared and asked, \"Why do you work so hard? I can make you rich. Just promise to give me whatever is standing behind your mill.\" The miller thought, \"That must be my apple tree.\" He agreed and wrote a promise for the stranger. The old man laughed and said, \"I will come back in three years to take what is mine.\" Then he left. When the miller got home, his wife asked, \"Where did this sudden money come from?",
"Suddenly, every box and chest was full. No one had brought them in, and I do not know how it happened. He answered, \"It comes from a stranger I met in the forest. He promised me great treasure. In return, I promised him what stands behind the mill. We can give him the big apple-tree for it.\" \"Ah, husband,\" said the terrified wife, \"that must have been the devil.\" \"He did not mean the apple-tree,\" he said. \"He meant our daughter, who was standing behind the mill sweeping the yard.",
"The miller’s daughter was a kind and gentle girl. She lived her three years very well and stayed clean and happy. When the time was up, she washed her hands and made a safe circle on the floor with chalk. The devil came early, but he could not get close to her. He was very angry. He told the miller, \"Take all the water away so she cannot wash her hands. If she is clean, I cannot hurt her.\" The miller was scared, so he did it. The next morning, the devil came back. But the girl had cried on her hands, and they were clean again. The devil could not get near her. He shouted at the miller, \"Cut her hands off, or I cannot take her away!",
"The miller was shocked. He said, \"How could I cut off my own child's hands?\" Then the evil one got angry. He said, \"If you do not do it, you are mine, and I will take you myself.",
"The father was very scared. He promised to do what the stranger said. He went to the girl and said, \"My child, I am so afraid. If I do not cut off your hands, the bad man will take me away. I am sorry, but I have to do this. Please help me.\" The girl was brave. She said, \"Do what you must, Father. I am your child.\" She put her hands down and let him cut them off. The bad man came back, but the girl had cried so much that her hands were very clean. The bad man had to give up. He could not hurt her anymore.",
"The miller told her, \"Because of you, I have become very rich. I will take care of you forever.\" But she said, \"I cannot stay here. I will go out into the world. Kind people will give me everything I need.",
"She tied her arms behind her back. At sunrise, she started walking. She walked all day until the sun went down. Then she saw a royal garden. The moon was shining, and she saw trees with pretty fruit. But she could not go in because the garden was surrounded by water. She had walked all day and had not eaten anything. Her tummy hurt from being so hungry. She thought, \"If I could just get inside, I could eat the fruit. If I don't eat, I will get sick.\" So, she knelt down and prayed to God. Suddenly, an angel appeared. The angel made a dam in the water. The moat became dry, and she could walk right through it. Now she went into the garden, and the angel walked with her.",
"She saw a tree full of shiny pears, but they were all counted. She walked over to them and was very hungry. She picked one pear and ate it right off the tree. She did not take any more. The gardener was watching her, but the angel was standing right there. The gardener was scared and thought the girl was a magic spirit. He was too afraid to say a word. When she finished the pear, she felt happy and went to hide behind the bushes. The next morning, the King came to the garden. He counted the pears and saw that one was missing. He asked the gardener what happened to it. The gardener said, \"Last night, a spirit came in. It had no hands, so it ate a pear with its mouth.",
"The king asked, \"How did the spirit cross the water, and where did it go after eating the pear?\" The gardener answered, \"Someone in a white coat came from the sky. They built a dam to hold back the water so the spirit could walk across the moat. I think it was an angel. I was scared, so I stayed quiet and did not cry out. When the spirit finished the pear, it went back home. The king said, 'If that is true, I will stay and watch with you tonight.'",
"When the sky turned dark, the king walked into the garden with a kind priest. They sat quietly under the tree to watch. At midnight, the girl came out of the bushes. She went to the tree and ate a sweet pear with her mouth. An angel in a white dress stood right beside her. The priest walked over to them and asked softly, \"Are you a spirit from heaven, or a human being?\" The girl answered gently, \"I am not a spirit. I am just a sad girl who has been left alone by everyone, except God.\" The king smiled at her and said, \"If the whole world has left you, I will never leave you.\" He took her home to his big palace. Because she was so kind and beautiful, he loved her very much. He had special silver hands made for her, and he made her his wife.",
"After a year, the king had to go on a long trip. He asked his young queen to stay with his mother. He told her, \"Please take good care of her. If she has a baby, tell me right away.\" Soon, the queen had a healthy baby boy. The old mother was happy. She wrote a letter to tell the king the good news. But on the way, the messenger got tired. He sat by a stream and fell asleep. The devil saw him and wanted to be mean. He took the letter and changed it. The new letter said the queen had a scary monster. When the king read it, he was very sad and worried. But he wrote back, \"Please take good care of her and the baby. I will come home soon.",
"The messenger went back with the letter, but he rested at the same place and fell asleep again. Then the devil came once more. He put a new letter in the messenger’s pocket. It said that the king wanted the queen and her baby to be put to sleep forever. The old mother was very sad when she read the letter. She could not believe it. She wrote back to the king, but she got no answer. The devil kept swapping the letters. In the last letter, it said she must keep the queen's tongue and eyes as a special gift to show she had done what she was told.",
"The old mother cried because she did not want anyone to get hurt. She took a deer and cut out its tongue and eyes. She kept them safe. Then she spoke to the queen. \"I cannot hurt you,\" she said. \"But you cannot stay here. You must go away with your child. Never come back.\" The poor woman tied her baby on her back. She walked away with big tears in her eyes. She went into a dark forest. She fell to her knees and prayed to God. An angel appeared and led her to a small house. A sign on the door said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" A beautiful girl in white came out and said, \"Welcome, lady queen. Come inside.",
"Then she took the little boy off her back and held him close to her chest so he could drink. She put him down in a soft, pretty bed. The poor woman looked at her and asked, \"How did you know I used to be a queen?",
"The white maiden smiled and said, \"I am an angel sent by God to watch over you and your little one.\" The queen stayed in the little house for seven years. She was very happy and well taken care of. Because she was so kind and good, God did a wonderful magic trick. Her hands grew back, just like new.",
"At last the king came home again from his journey. He wanted to see his wife and the child right away. Then his kind old mother started to cry. She looked at him and said, \"You were so unkind to ask me to take those two sweet lives.\" She showed him the letters that the bad man had made up. Then she went on, \"I did what you asked, and I showed the tokens—the tongue and the eyes.",
"The king cried for his wife and his little son. He cried even harder than she had. The old mother felt sorry for him. She spoke softly. \"Do not cry,\" she said. \"She is still alive. I took a hind, a kind deer, and used its skin to make these tokens. I tied the baby to his mother's back. I told them to go far away into the wide world. I made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry.\"\n\nThe king promised to find them. \"I will travel as far as the sky is blue,\" he said. \"I will not eat or drink until I see my dear wife and my child again. I hope they are safe and not lost.",
"The king traveled for seven long years. He looked in every cave and behind every rock, but he could not find her. He thought she had died of hunger. For all that time, he did not eat or drink. But God took care of him. At last, he came to a big forest. He saw a small house with a sign that said, \"Everyone is welcome here.\" The beautiful white maiden came out. She took his hand and led him inside. She said, \"Welcome, kind king,\" and asked where he came from. He told her, \"I have traveled for seven years. I am looking for my wife and her child, but I cannot find them.\" The angel brought him food and drink, but he did not want any. He just wanted to rest for a little while. So, he lay down to sleep and covered his face with a soft cloth.",
"The angel went into the room where the queen sat with her son. She usually called him Sorrowful. The angel said, \"Go outside with your child. Your husband has come.\" So she went to the place where he lay. The soft cloth fell from his face. Then she said, \"Sorrowful, pick up your father's cloth and cover his face again.\" The child picked it up and put it over his face again. The king heard this in his sleep. He smiled and let the cloth fall down once more. But the child grew impatient. He said, \"Dear mother, how can I cover my father's face when I have no father in this world?",
"I learned to say the prayer. You told me my father was in heaven and was the good God. But how could I know a wild man like this? He is not my father. When the king heard this, he stood up and asked who they were. Then she said, \"I am your wife, and that is your son, Sorrowful.\" He saw her living hands and said, \"My wife had silver hands.\" She answered, \"The good God has made my real hands grow back.\" An angel went into the inner room and brought the silver hands to show him. Now he knew for sure it was his dear wife and his dear child. He kissed them and was so happy. He said, \"A heavy stone has fallen from off my heart.",
"Then the angel of God ate with them once more. After that, they went home to the king's kind old mother. There was great joy everywhere. The king and queen were married again. They lived happily together until the very end."
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