![]() ![]() The Bridegroom answered: ‘Next Sunday you must come and see me without fail. She made excuses, and said she could not find the way. Then the Bridegroom said, ‘My house is in the depths of the forest.’ The Maiden answered ‘I don’t even know where your house is.’ One day he said to her, ‘You are my betrothed, and yet you have never been to see me.’ Whenever she looked at him, or thought about him, a shudder came over her. The Maiden, however, did not like him as a bride ought to like her bridegroom nor had she any faith in him. Soon after a suitor came who appeared to be rich, and as the Miller knew nothing against him he promised his daughter to him. He thought, ‘If a suitable bridegroom come and ask for my daughter, I will give her to him.’ When she grew up, he wanted to have her married and settled. There was once a Miller, who had a beautiful daughter. Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World. ![]()
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