The girls were so frightened they didn’t know whether they were alive or dead. But the lazybones took the shroud, went to the window, opened it, and said:
“There, take it.”
“No,” replied the corpse, “restore it to the place you took it from.”
Just then the cocks suddenly began to crow. The corpse disappeared.
Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses, at the very same hour as before, the corpse came, tapped at the window, and cried:
“Give me my shroud!”
Well, the girl’s father and mother opened the window and offered him his shroud.
“No,” says he, “let her take it back to the place she took it from.”
“Really now, how could one go to a graveyard with a corpse? What a horrible idea!” she replied.
Just then the cocks crew. The corpse disappeared.