It tasted so good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. ![]() ![]() She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. ![]() The man, who loved her, thought: 'Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.'Īt twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. 'Ah,' she replied, 'if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.' Her husband was alarmed, and asked: 'What ails you, dear wife?' She quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. ![]() These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. At length it appeared that God was about to grant their desire. There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child.
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