The dying youth or child in many cases makes a nuncupative will, or declares his last wishes, upon a suggestion proceeding from the person who is by him, commonly from the mother: English #A#, #B#, #C#, #H#, #I#: German #A#, #D#, #E#, #F#: the Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Magyar versions. The bequest to the poisoner is the gallows in English #B#, #C#, #H#, #I#, Italian #A#, #B#, #C#; hell, English #A#, German #A#, #D#, #F#, Swedish #A#, #B#, Danish; and an equivalent in German #E#, the Dutch and the Magyar copy. 'The Cruel Brother,' No 11, and 'Edward,' No 13, have a will of this same fashion. In all the English versions the burden has the entreaty "Make my bed," and this is addressed to the mother in all but #L#, #N#. In #H#, an Irish copy, and #I#, an American one, the mother asks where the bed shall be made; and the answer is, In the churchyard. This feature is found again in German #B#, #C# and in the Wendish version. The resemblance in the form of the stanza in all the versions deserves a word of remark. For the most part, the narrative proceeds in sections of two short lines, or rather half lines, which are a question and an answer, the rest of the stanza being regularly repeated. English #L#, #N#, as written (#L# not always), separate the question and answer; this is done, too, in Italian #B#, #C#. German #E#, on the contrary, has two questions and the answers in each stanza, and is altogether peculiar. Swedish #B# varies the burden in part, imagining father, brother, sister, etc., to ask what the little girl will give to each, and adapting the reply accordingly, "Faderen min," "Broderen min." A Bohemian and a Catalan ballad which have two of the three principal traits of the foregoing, the poisoning and the testament, do not exhibit, perhaps have lost, the third, the employment of snakes. The story of the first is that a mother who dislikes the wife her son has chosen attempts to poison her at the wedding feast. She sets a glass of honey before the son, a glass of poison before the bride. They exchange cups. The poison is swift. The young man leaves four horses to his brother, eight cows to his sister, his fine house to his wife. "And what to me, my son?" asks the mother. A broad mill-stone and the deep Moldau is the bequest to her. Waldau, Böhmische Granaten, II, 109, cited by Reifferscheid, p. 137 f.