Then his sister came out and said to him, ‘Why have you smashed the plum-trees? For the Unclean Spirit will come and kill you.’
Then he said, ‘I would not have you think ill of me; but kindly come and give me a draught of wine and a morsel of bread.’
Then she brought bread and wine. As she was handing him the bread and wine, she noticed her father’s colt, and recognised it. Then she said, ‘This must be my father’s horse.’
‘Take notice then that I also am his.’
Then she fell on his neck, and he on hers.
Then she said to him, ‘My brother, the Unclean Spirit will come from the Twelfth Region. And he will come and destroy you.’
Then the Unclean Spirit came, and hurled his mace; and it opened twelve doors, and hung itself on its peg. Then Cosmas took it, and hurled it twelve regions away from him. Then the Unclean Spirit took it, and came home with it in his hand, and asked, ‘Wife, I smell mortal man?’
(Meanwhile she had turned her brother into an ear-ring, and put him in her ear.)
Then she said, ‘You’re for ever eating corpses, and are meaning to eat me, too, for I also am mortal.’
Then he said to her, ‘Don’t tell lies; my brother-in-law has come.’ [[38]]