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 ' . And he gaed into the castle for shelter , and there he saw an auld wife sitting beside the kitchen fire . He asked the wife if he might stay there for the night , as he was tired wi ' a lang journey ; and the wife said he might , but it was not a good place for him to be in , as it belanged to the Red Etin , who was a very terrible beast , wi ' three heads , that spared no living man he could get hold of . The young man would have gone away , but he was afraid of the beasts on the outside of the castle ; so he beseeched the old woman to conceal him as well as she could , and not to tell the Etin that he was there . He thought , if he could put over the night , he might get away in the morning without meeting wi ' the beasts , and so escape . But he had not been long in his hidy-hole before the awful Etin came in ; and nae sooner was he in than he was heard crying : `` Snouk but and snouk ben , I find the smell of an earthly man ; Be he living , or be he dead , His heart this night shall kitchen -LRB- 1 -RRB- my bread . '' -LRB- 1 -RRB- `` Kitchen , '' that is , `` season . '' The monster soon found the poor young man , and pulled him from his hole . And when he had got him out he told him that if he could answer him three questions his life should be spared . The first was : Whether Ireland or Scotland was first inhabited ? The second was : Whether man was made for woman , or woman for man ? The third was : Whether men or brutes were made first ? The lad not being able to answer one of these questions , the Red Etin took a mace and knocked him on the head , and turned him into a pillar of stone . On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it , and he was grieved to find it a ' brown wi ' rust .
He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also ; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water , that she might bake a cake XXXXX him .
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