He shall not mock this trick!' My heart was filled with horror, but I thought afterward it really meant nothing.

Ei! ei! from the hour he was here you are no longer the same as formerly; that springs from the magical word he whispered in your ear.
You cannot pronounce the word, he told me; but by it you have been enchanted: this, and not book-learning, has worked the change.

But you shall be delivered! If you have faith, and that you must have, you shall again become gay, and I, spite of the evil words which I spoke, be able to sleep peacefully in my grave.

If you will only lay this upon your heart, now that the moon is in its wane, the trouble will vanish out of your heart as the disk of the moon decreases!" And saying this she drew out of her pocket a little leather purse, opened it and took out a piece of folded paper.

"In this is a bit of the wood out of which our Saviour's cross was made.