Now , one of the robbers was not really killed , only badly wounded , but he lay quite still and pretended to be dead like the others . Then the prince and his step-sister entered the castle and took up their abode in it . The next morning the prince went out hunting . Before leaving he told his step-sister that she might go into every room in the house except into the cave where the dead robbers lay . But as soon as his back was turned she forgot what he had said , and having wandered through all the other rooms she went down to the cellar and opened the door . As soon as she looked in the robber who had only pretended to be dead sat up and said to her : ` Do n't be afraid . Do what I tell you , and I will be your friend . If you marry me you will be much happier with me than with your brother . But you must first go into the sitting-room and look in the cupboard . There you will find three bottles . In one of them there is a healing ointment which you must put on my chin to heal the wound ; then if I drink the contents of the second bottle it will make me well , and the third bottle will make me stronger than I ever was before . Then , when your brother comes back from the wood with his beasts you must go to him and say , `` Brother , you are very strong . If I were to fasten your thumbs behind your back with a stout silk cord , could you wrench yourself free ? '' And when you see that he can not do it , call me . ' When the brother came home , the step-sister did as the robber had told her , and fastened her brother 's thumbs behind his back . But with one wrench he set himself free , and said to her , ` Sister , that cord is not strong enough for me . ' The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts , and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with . But again he freed himself , though not so easily as the first time , and he said to his sister : ` Even that cord is not strong enough . ' The third day , on his return from the wood he consented to have his strength tested for the last time . So she took a very strong cord of silk , which she had prepared by the robber 's advice , and this time , though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might , he could not break the cord .
So he called to her and said : ` XXXXX , this time the cord is so strong I can not break it .
Brother Sister bottles first return second step-sister third thumbs wrench