I don't know how long it's been since I've done a reading! I'm glad to be able to finish one more before I'm done!
I'm doing notes for "The Robber Bridegroom." It begins with a beautiful girl who has been promised to marry a man she doesn't feel any affection for. She feels a chill about him. He asks her why she hasn't visited him and he says that he will line the path with ashes so she can find his house. She had told him previously that she didn't know where he lived. When she got to the house, she hated it and to make things worse, a voice told her to leave because he did awful things. An old woman that comes out of nowhere tells her that the people living there are robbers. They will eat her unless she hides and the old woman agrees to help her. Wow, that is a predicament.
The robbers come back and kill a girl they have brought home. They begin cutting her up and they see she has a gold ring on her finger. When they cut that off, the finger falls near the coffin where the girl is hiding. They go to look for it, but the old woman tells them to go. She follows a trail of lentils and peas that have sprouted and goes home.
Now, it's her wedding day. Her bridegroom comes and they sit around a table. She tells everyone of the experience she's had, but describes it as a dream. When she gets to the end, she holds up the finger, proving it had really happened. The groom tries to run, but the townspeople grab him and he's brought to justice. It was a lot to process and I was worried she would be harmed, but this was a good ending.
The Robber Bridegroom illustrated by Walter Crane (Wikimedia Commons)
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