“You sha’n’t get away from me this time!” And now she is close, now she is just going to catch him!
At that very moment Prince Ivan dashed up to the abode of the Sun’s Sister and cried.
“Sun, Sun! open the window!”
The Sun’s Sister opened the window, and the prince bounded through it, horse and all.
Then the witch began to ask that her brother might be given up to her for punishment. The Sun’s Sister would not listen to her, nor would she give him up. Then the witch said:
“Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier. If I am, then I will eat him; but if he is, then let him kill me!”
This was done. Prince Ivan was the first to get into one of the scales; then the witch began to get into the other. But no sooner had she set foot in it than up shot Prince Ivan in the air, and that with such force that he flew right up into the sky, and into the house of the Sun’s Sister.
But as for the Witch-Snake, she remained down below on earth.
THE MAKING OF THE MIRROR
(Japanese)