They waited until the night was dark; then they killed a goat, threw it into the cellar, and took the body of the deacon to another place and buried it in the earth.
A few days passed; people looked for the deacon everywhere, and asked everybody they could about him. And the fool said to them:
“What do you want of him? I killed him with an axe, and my brothers threw the body into the cellar.”
They at once seized the fool and said to him:
“Take us and show us.”
The fool climbed into the cellar, took out the head of the goat, and said:
“Was your deacon black?”
“Yes,” they said.
“And had he got a beard?”
“Yes, he had a beard.”