“Give us bread!”
So they gave them bread.
They all sat down to eat, and one maiden dropped the meat.
Then the bones began lifting and stretching their legs under the bench. The girls tried to run away; and the bones raced after them. The bones caught one girl up, and broke her across their knees. The other girls made their escape into the loft; one girl hid behind the water-butt.
The bones ran up to the loft and asked: “What is there up there?”
“God’s taper.”
“But down there?”
“The Devil’s poker,” she answered.
So the bones hauled the second girl out and strangled her.