‘I will give it you, brother.’
And he took out an eye, and gave him a bit of bread.
And he went further, and he hungered. ‘Give me a bit more bread.’
‘Give me one more eye.’
‘I will give it you, brother.’
Behold, he was blind now, and his brother took him by the hand and led him under the gallows, and left him there; and his brother departed. At nightfall came the devils, and perched on the gallows.
And the biggest devil asked, ‘What hast done in the world? where wert walking?’
‘I did—I stopped the water.’
‘And thou, what hast thou done?’
‘The emperor’s daughter neither dies nor lives; she is just in torment.’ [[113]]