“See you never take anything that anyone brings you,” said they, “or this will happen to you, too.”
Then they put the dog into their garden.
After a time the queen dreamt again that Elisa was alive and happy, so she called the witch and said:—
“Elisa is very fond of flowers; pick a bunch and cast a spell upon them, so that whoever smells them shall be bewitched.”
The witch did as she was told, and took the flowers to the hole.
“Elisa,” she called down.
“What is it?” said Elisa.
“Here are some flowers for you.”
“Well, you can put them down and go away. I don’t want them.”
So the witch put them down and went home. Soon some sheep and a shepherd came by; the sheep saw the flowers, smelt them and became spell-bound; the shepherd went to drive off the sheep, and became spell-bound too. When the fairies came home that night, they found the sheep and the shepherd, showed them to Elisa as a warning, and put them too into their garden.