Note 11 — II—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent.
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He sets out. While he is going through a forest he meets an old woman, who asks him for a morsel of his cake.11 He says to her, “No!” that he would prefer to throw it into the muddy clay. And the lad asks her if she knows of a servant’s place. She says, “No.” He goes on from forest to forest, until the night overtakes him. There comes to him a bear. He says to him,