In process of time she bore a child, but all the while she had never spoken a word.

The wise woman, consulted again, told Janni to take the child and pretend to lay it on the fire, when his wife would speak.

He obeyed again, but made a slip, and the child, falling into the fire, was burned to death, whereupon the wife fled to the sea and was never seen again.

This was told me in all seriousness as of a contemporary event, and was evidently held as history.

I bought from a peasant one of the well-known three-sided prisms with archaic intaglios of animals on the faces, and had the curiosity to inquire the virtues of it, for I was told that it was greatly valued and had been worn by his wife, who reluctantly gave it up.