[118] Another instance of a child being asked for by an ambiguous request is to be found in the story of the Clever Countrywoman (Jannsen), which must not be confounded with one in Kreutzwald's collection with a nearly similar title, and of which we append an abstract. The story ends, rather unusually, in a subterfuge. A herd-boy returned one evening, and reported to his mistress that a cow was missing. The woman went herself, but everything round her was changed by magic, and she could not find her way home. However, as the mist rose from the moor, a little white man appeared, whom she recognised as one of the moor-dwellers. He took her home, and returned her cow, on her promising him what she would carry night and day under her heart. From thenceforth she took care always to wear her apron. A year afterwards, she became the mother of a fine boy, and when he was nine weeks old, the window was opened one night, and the intruder cried out, "Give me what you have carried night and day under your heart, as you promised." The woman flung him her apron, crying out, "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, receive what I promised you;" and he instantly vanished with the apron. [119] These great public periodical feasts are Eastern rather than Western. Compare the story of Ali Shar and Zumurrud ( _Thousand and One Nights_ ). [120] A similar feat is performed by Sarvik in the _Kalevipoeg_, Canto 17. [121] See page 13. [122] As in the _Kalevipoeg_, Canto 13 ; and the story of the Gold-Spinners, &c. [123] Compare p. 121 (anteà). The bell is not mentioned elsewhere in this story. [124] A beer-barrel with a tap, for general use, often stands in the houses of the Esthonian peasantry. [125] "And as to the sword, if it be drawn against an army, and its bearer shake it, he will rout the army; and if he say to it at the time of his shaking it, 'Slay this army,' there will proceed from that sword a lightning which will slay the whole army."— _Story of Joodar_ ( _Thousand and One Nights_ ).