In the night she creeps in through the key-hole, and places herself upon the sleeper's bosom.

The same superstition is also found in German Grimm speaks thus about it: If you say to the nightmare,-- Old hag, come to-morrow, And I from you will borrow, it retreats directly, and comes the next morning in the shape of a man to borrow something."] they are angry with her, and how could one expect, from the class to which she belongs, that she should return scorn with kindness?
She is become savage, that she may not feel their neglect.

In a few days, when we have the mowing-feast, you yourself will see how every girl gets a partner; but poor Sidsel may adorn herself as much as she likes, she still stands alone.

It is truly hard to be born such a being!" "The unfortunate girl!" sighed Otto.
"O, she does not feel it!" said Wilhelm: "she cannot feel it; for that she is too rude, too much of an animal.".