Note 2 — THE WHITE SERPENT.1

So they woke very early, before it was light, and went out to get wood.2 The husband stood up in the tree, and the wife down below in a ditch, or hole. As she stood there she saw a great white serpent glide past her. ‘Look, look!’ she cried to her husband; ‘see that great white serpent; surely there is something unnatural about it!’