then said he, "i am thy betrothed bridegroom, whom thou sawest as bearskin, but through god’s grace i have again received my human form, and have once more become clean." he went up to her, embraced her, and gave her a kiss. in the meantime the two sisters came back in full dress, and when they saw that the handsome man had fallen to the share of the youngest, and heard that he was bearskin, they ran out full of anger and rage. one of them drowned herself in the well, the other hanged herself on a tree. in the evening, some one knocked at the door, and when the bridegroom opened it, it was the devil in his green coat, who said, "seest thou, i have now got two souls in the place of thy one!"