lt sure his scheme was successful. He went
to the cemetery in the morning, and disguised himself as a hermit, and
the prince as his pupil. And he said: "Take this pearl necklace from
among the jewels. Go and sell it in the market-place. And if the
policemen arrest you, say this: It was given to me to sell by my
teacher.'"

So the prince went to the market-place and stood there offering the
pearl necklace for sale, and he was arrested while doing it by the
policemen. And as they were eager to find out about the theft of the
jewels from Bite's daughter, they took the prince at once to the chief
of police. And when he saw that the culprit was dressed like a hermit,
he asked him very gently: "Holy sir, where did you get this pearl
necklace? It belongs to Bite's daughter and was stolen." Then the
prince said to them: "Gentlemen, my teacher gave it to me to sell. You
had better go and ask him."

Then the chief of police went and asked him: "Holy sir, how did this
pearl necklace come into your pupil's hand?"

And the shrewd counsellor's son whispered to him: "Sir, as I am a
hermit, I wander about all the time in this region. And as I happened
to be here in this cemetery, I saw a whole company of witches who came
here at night. And one of the witches split open the heart of a king's
son, and offered it to her master. She was mad with wine, and screwed
up her face most horribly. But when she impudently tried to snatch my
rosary as I prayed, I became angry, and branded her on the hip with a
three-pronged fork which I had made red-hot with a magic spell. And I
took this pearl necklace from her neck. Then, as it was not a thing for
a hermit, I sent it to be sold."

When he heard this, the chief of police went and told the whole story
to the king. And when the king heard and saw the evidence, he sent the
old woman, who was reliable, to identify the pearl necklace. And he
heard from her that Lily was branded on the hip.

Then he was convinced that she was really a witch and had devoured his
son. So he went himself to the counsellor's son, who was disguised as a
hermit, and asked how Lily should be punished. And by his advice, she
was banished from the city, though her parents wept. So she was
banished naked to the forest and knew that the counsellor's son had
done it all, but she did not die.

And at nightfall the prince and the counsellor's son put off their
hermit disguise, mounted on horseback, and found her weeping. They