His mother asked him: 'Johnny, what is the matter with you?
You do look very bad!' So he up and told her what had happened to him in the barn, and what he saw the night before.

And he took suddenly sick and had to keep his bed for nine weeks, and when he got up and was walking around, he wasn't himself any more, and the sister says to the mother: 'Mother, I'm sure that it isn't Johnny that's there.

It's only his shadow, for when I look at him, it isn't his features or face, but the face of another thing.

He used to be so pleasant and cheerful, but now he looks like quite another man.
Mother,' said she, 'we haven't Johnny at all.' Soon he got a little stronger and went to the capital town with corn.

Several other men went also to get their corn ground.