the girls had run away, but the bear called to them, "snow-white and rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, i will come with you." then they knew his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there, a handsome man, clothed all in gold. "i am a king’s son," he said, "and i was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; i have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until i was freed by his death. now he has got his well-deserved punishment."