A little brother and sister were once playing by a well, and whilethey were thus playing, they both fell in. A water-nixie lived downbelow, who said, now I have got you, now you shall work hard for me,and carried them off with her. She gave the girl dirty tangled flaxto spin, and she had to fetch water in a bucket with a hole in it,and the boy had to hew down a tree with a blunt axe, and they gotnothing to eat but dumplings as hard as stones.Then at last the children became so impatient, that they waited untilone sunday, when the nixie was at church, and ran away. But whenchurch was over, the nixie saw that the birds were flown, andfollowed them with great strides. The children saw her from afar,and the girl threw a brush behind her which formed an immense hill ofbristles, with thousands and thousands of spikes, over which thenixie was forced to scramble with great difficulty, at last, however,she got over.When the children saw this, the boy threw behind him a comb whichmade a great ridge with a thousand times a thousand teeth, but thenixie managed to keep herself steady on them, and at last crossedover. Then the girl threw behind her a looking-glass which formed ahill of mirrors, and was so slippery that it was impossible for thenixie to cross it. Then she thought, I will go home quickly andfetch my axe, and cut the hill of glass in half. Long before shereturned, however, and had hewn through the glass, the children hadescaped to a great distance, and the water-nixie was obliged totrundle back to her well again.
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Big Book of Ancient Gabanian Fables
SpiritualOften regarded as the most sacred of text from the planet of Gaban, once forbidden to foreigners, translators and the ability to print on text. This is the first translated Copy of the Holy Scriptures from Athenaism, the dominant religion of the pla...
