‘Well, then, and if your brother-in-law has come, will you eat him?’
Then he said, ‘I will not.’
‘Swear it on your sword that you will not eat him.’
Then she took him out of her ear, and set him at table. He ate at table with the Unclean Spirit.
Then the lad went outside,[15] and creeps into the fetlock of his colt, and hid himself there. Then the Unclean Spirit arose, and hunted everywhere, and failed to light on him. And he set his bugle to his mouth, and blew a blast, and summoned all the birds upon the horse, and they searched every hair of the horse. And just as he was coming to the fetlock, then the cocks crowed, and he fell.
Cosmas came forth, and went to him. ‘Good day, brother-in-law.’
Then he asked him, ‘Where were you?’
‘Why, I was in the hay, before the horse.’
Then Cosmas took leave of them, and went to his other sisters, and did with them just as with this one.
Then his little sister asked him, ‘Where are you going, my brother?’