I am the mother of the Sun , and I command you to ride away from here at once , and I pronounce sentence of death upon you , for you proudly let yourself be called the Sun-Hero without having done anything to deserve the name . ' The youth mounted his horse sadly , and rode home . The people all thronged round him on his return , anxious to hear his adventures , but he told them nothing , and only to his mother did he confide what had befallen him . But the old Queen laughed , and said to her son : ` Do n't worry , my child ; you see , the Fairy has protected you so far , and the Sun has found no one to kill you . So cheer up and be happy . ' After a time the Prince forgot all about his adventure , and married a beautiful Princess , with whom he lived very happily for some time . But one day when he was out hunting he felt very thirsty , and coming to a stream he stooped down to drink from it , and this caused his death , for a crab came swimming up , and with its claws tore out his tongue . He was carried home in a dying condition , and as he lay on his death-bed the black woman appeared and said : ` So the Sun has , after all , found someone , who was not under the Fairy 's spell , who has caused your death . And a similar fate will overtake everyone under the Sun who wrongfully assumes a title to which he has no right . ' THE WITCH -LRB- 28 -RRB- -LRB- 28 -RRB- From the Russian . Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died , leaving him with two children -- twins -- a boy and a girl . For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children , caring for them as best he could ; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it , and at last he made up his mind to marry again , feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children . So he married , and in the following years several children were born to him ; but peace and order did not come to the household . For the step-mother was very cruel to the twins , and beat them , and half-starved them , and constantly drove them out of the house ; for her one idea was to get them out of the way . All day she thought of nothing but how she should get rid of them ; and at last an evil idea came into her head , and she determined to send them out into the great gloomy wood where a wicked witch lived . And so one morning she spoke to them , saying : ` You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny , who lives in a dear little hut in the wood . You will have to wait upon her and serve her , but you will be well rewarded , for she will give you the best of everything . ' So the children left the house together ; and the little sister , who was very wise for her years , said to the brother : ` We will first go and see our own dear grandmother , and tell her where our step-mother is sending us . ' And when the grandmother heard where they were going , she cried and said : ` You poor motherless children ! How I pity you ; and yet I can do nothing to help you !
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