ABSTRACT
Now, when the first man didn’t return, his wife began to worry. She suspected that his friend had murdered him, and so she had the friend put in jail. Meanwhile, the man who trusted in God had kept on walking, until he finally came to a cave filled with shrubbery. Since it had grown dark, he went inside and discovered that this was the gathering place for all the devils, and the Chief Devil was going around asking each one what he had been doing. One of them told about the two friends and the mule, while another had a story to tell about the daughter of the King of Russia. He had caused a fish-bone to lodge in her throat, and since it was impossible for any doctor to remove it, she was certain to die. Doctors had been summoned from everywhere, but no one knew the remedy, which consisted of three drops of seed from the sour grape arbor at the princess’s window.
