‘How can I help weeping, when your mother has made me fell this forest, and now commands me so to restore this same forest so that each leaf shall be once more in its proper place on the tree?’
‘Don’t weep any more, then; eat.’
He ate; he was satisfied. [[193]]
‘Come, let me louse your head.’
He lay down on her lap and went to sleep.
Then she whistled, and the devils appeared in great numbers.
‘What do you demand of us, my lady?’
‘I demand that my forest be restored to its former condition, so that each leaf may be on its own tree.’
Well, the devils set to work and restored everything, so that every leaf was in its proper place. Then she awoke him. He got up and saw the whole forest entire, as it had been before.
Quite overjoyed, he returned to the house before night.