‘Tell me what you saw when you came to the church. For if you don’t tell me I will kill your father.’
‘I didn’t see anything.’
Then he looked,[3] and he killed her father, and departed to his grave.
Next night he came back. ‘Nita, tell me what you saw.’
‘I didn’t see anything.’
‘Tell me, or I will kill your mother, as I killed your father. Tell me what you saw.’
‘I didn’t see anything.’
Then he killed her mother, and departed to his grave.
Then the girl arose in the morning. And she had twelve [[16]]servants. And she said to them, ‘See, I have much money and many oxen and many sheep; and they shall come to the twelve of you as a gift, for I shall die to-night. And it will fare ill with you if you bury me not in the forest at the foot of an apple-tree.’
At night came the young spark from the grave and asked, ‘Nita, are you at home?’