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格林童话集：The Three Black Princesses 三个黑公主 2018 10 29 阅读 : 35 次
EAST INDIA was besieged by an enemy who would not retire untilhe had received six hundred dollars. Then the townsfolk causedit to be proclaimed by beat of drum that whosoever was able toprocure the money should be burgomaster. Now there was a poorfisherman who fished on the lake with his son, and the enemy cameand took the son prisoner, and gave the father six hundred dollars for him. So the father went and gave them to the great men of the town, and the enemy departed, and the fisherman became burgomaster. Then it was proclaimed that whosoever did not say, "Mr. Burgomaster," should be put to death on the gallows.
The son got away again from the enemy, and came to a greatforest on a high mountain. The mountain opened, and he wentinto a great enchanted castle, wherein chairs, tables, and benches were all hung with black. Then came three young princesses who were entirely dressed in black, but had a little white on their faces; they told him he was not to be afraid, they would not hurt him, and that he could deliver them. He said he would gladly do that, if he did but know how. At this, they told him he must for a whole year not speak to them and also not look at them, and what he wanted to have he was just to ask for, and if they dared give him an answer they would do so. When he had been there for a long while he saidhe should like to go to his father, and they told him he might go. He was to take with him this purse with money, put on this coat, and in a week he must be back there again.
Then he was caught up, and was instantly in East India. He couldno longer find his father in the fishermans hut, and asked thepeople where the poor fisherman could be, and they told him hemust not say that, or he would come to the gallows. Then hewent to his father and said, "Fisherman, how hast thou got here?"Then the father said, "Thou must not say that, if the great men of the town knew of that, thou wouldst come to the gallows." He,however, would not stop, and was brought to the gallows. When he was there, he said, "O, my masters, just give me leave to go to the old fishermans hut." Then he put on his old smock frock, andcame back to the great men, and said, "Do ye not now see? Am Inot the son of the poor fisherman? Did I not earn bread for myfather and mother in this dress?" Hereupon his father knew himagain, and begged his pardon, and took him home with him, and thenhe related all that had happened to him, and how he had got into aforest on a high mountain, and the mountain had opened and hehad gone into an enchanted castle, where all was black, and threeyoung princesses had come to him who were black except a littlewhite on their faces. And they had told him not to fear, and that he could deliver them. Then his mother said that might very likely not be a good thing to do, and that he ought to take a holy water vessel with him, and drop some boiling water on their faces.
He went back again, and he was in great fear, and he droppedthe water on their faces as they were sleeping, and they all turned half white. Then all the three princesses sprang up, and said, "Thou accursed dog, our blood shall cry for vengeance on thee! Now there is no man born in the world, nor will any ever be bornwho can set us free! We have still three brothers who are boundby seven chains they shall tear thee to pieces." Then there wasa loud shrieking all over the castle, and he sprang out of the window, and broke his leg, and the castle sank into the earth again, the mountain shut to again, and no one knew where the castle had stood.
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