The young man laughed scornfully. “How do you propose that I should
work that miracle?”
“Oh, it is quite easy. Go into the garden and gather the flowers of the
everlasting plant and some of dragon’s blood. Crush them together and
boil them in a large tub of water, and then put me into it.”
The knight did as the old witch bade him, and, sure enough, she came
out quite whole, but uglier than ever. She then told the young man what
had become of his brother, and he went down into the dungeon, and
brought up his body and the bodies of the other victims who lay there,
and when they were all washed in the magic water their strength was
restored to them.
And, besides these, he found in another cavern the bodies of the girls
who had been sacrificed to the dragon, and brought them back to life
also.
As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey
escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of
Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise.
[From Cuentos, Oraciones, Adivinas recogidos por Fernan Caballaro.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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