‘If go you will, God aid you.’
He went, and went straight to Chutilla, and seized Chutilla, [[112]]and cut him all in little pieces, till he had cut him up, and cast him to the dogs, and they devoured him. And he took the emperor’s daughter, and went with her to the emperor.
And the maiden said, ‘Father, this is he that saved me from the dragons.’
The emperor joined them in marriage, and made him king. And they lived, perhaps they are living even now.
I know no variant, Gypsy or Gentile, of this story, though Chutilla recalls the ‘Halber Mensch’ of Hahn, ii. 274. The three flags, red, black, and white, are seemingly unique. For casting the club to announce one’s coming, cf. supra, pp. 37, 40; and Denton’s Serbian Folklore, p. 124. For snake-leaf in Hungarian-Gypsy tale, cf. supra, p. 99. And for ‘Mother, I was sleeping soundly,’ cf. supra, p. 33. If the story of ‘Peter Pretty-face’ is complete, his easy victory at the end may be due to God’s help, invoked by the mother.
No. 30.—The Rich and the Poor Brother
There were two brothers, one poor and one rich. And the rich one said to him, ‘Come with me, brother, to our father.’ And the rich one took bread for himself, and the poor one had none.
And the rich one kept eating bread, and the poor one said, ‘Give me, too, a bit of bread.’
‘If you will give me an eye, I will give you a bit of bread.’