And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned . And they were married , and he and she are living happy till this day , for aught I ken . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Chambers , Popular Traditions of Scotland . THE RED ETIN There were ance twa widows that lived on a small bit o ' ground , which they rented from a farmer . Ane of them had twa sons , and the other had ane ; and by-and-by it was time for the wife that had twa sons to send them away to seeke their fortune . So she told her eldest son ae day to take a can and bring her water from the well , that she might bake a cake for him ; and however much or however little water he might bring , the cake would be great or sma ' accordingly ; and that cake was to be a ' that she could gie him when he went on his travels . The lad gaed away wi ' the can to the well , and filled it wi ' water , and then came away hame again ; but the can being broken the maist part of the water had run out before he got back . So his cake was very sma ' ; yet sma ' as it was , his mother asked if he was willing to take the half of it with her blessing , telling him that , if he chose rather to have the hale , he would only get it wi ' her curse . The young man , thinking he might hae to travel a far way , and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions , said he would like to hae the hale cake , com of his mother 's malison what like ; so she gave him the hale cake , and her malison alang wi ` t . Then he took his brither aside , and gave him a knife to keep till he should come back , desiring him to look at it every morning , and as lang as it continued to be clear , then he might be sure that the owner of it was well ; but if it grew dim and rusty , then for certain some ill had befallen him . So the young man set out to seek his fortune . And he gaed a ' that day , and a ' the next day ; and on the third day , in the afternoon , he came up to where a shepherd was sitting with a flock o ' sheep . And he gaed up to the shepherd and asked him wha the sheep belanged to ; and the man answered : `` The Red Etin of Ireland Ance lived in Bellygan , And stole King Malcolm 's daughter , The King of fair Scotland . He beats her , he binds her , He lays her on a band ; And every day he dings her With a bright silver wand Like Julian the Roman He 's one that fears no man . It 's said there 's ane predestinate To be his mortal foe ; But that man is yet unborn And lang may it be so . '' The young man then went on his journey ; and he had not gone far when he espied an old man with white locks herding a flock of swine ; and he gaed up to him and asked whose swine these were , when the man answered : `` The Red Etin of Ireland '' -- -LRB- Repeat the verses above . -RRB- Then the young man gaed on a bit farther , and came to another very old man herding goats ; and when he asked whose goats they were , the answer was : `` The Red Etin of Ireland '' -- -LRB- Repeat the verses again . -RRB- This old man also told him to beware of the next beasts that he should meet , for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen . So the young man went on , and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadfu ' beasts , ilk ane o ' them wi ' twa heads , and on every head four horns . And he was sore frightened , and ran away from them as fast as he could ; and glad was he when he came to a castle that stood on a hillock , wi ' the door standing wide to the wa ' .
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