“The Water Sprite”
A brother and sister once fell into a
well, and at the bottom they met a fairy. But the fairy took both of them to
make them work for her.
The fairy made the girl spin hard flax and
try to fill a cask full of holes with water. The boy she sent to the woods with
a dull axe to cut wood.
The children didn’t care for this, so one
Sunday when the fairy was at church, they ran away. The fairy saw them and gave
chase.
The children saw her coming, so the girl
threw a great brush, which grew into a mountain with prickly points. The fairy
managed to get over it, so the boy threw a comb which grew into a mountain of
combs, but the fairy managed to get over it.
The girl then threw a mirror that grew
into a mountain. But this was so slippery, the fairy had to return home to get
her axe to break it. But by the time she broke it, the children were long gone
and she had to return home empty handed.
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I can – to some extent – understand the making
them work, but why make them work at stupid tasks? If the fairy didn’t have
actual chores for them to do, why bother taking them? What sick power play does
this fairy get off on?
What church do fairy’s go to?
Where did the kids get the items that magically
grow into mountains? And why didn’t they use them earlier?
Are these magical kids related to Lena and Birdie?
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