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The Shining Sword and the Knowledge of the Cause of the one Story about Women (Author: Unknown)

section 22

Then he went to meet the woman, and they brought her into his presence. ‘I was married to my own wife in great love, and she began to give a smile to the swineherd. She took a little magical rod with her and made of me a bull among the

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cattle. As I had human sense, there was no day at all but three or four of the best cattle were dead by me. To her it was a great concern what I was killing of the cattle, and she made an old white garran of me. I was working for every body; then he whom I liked, I would do his work satisfactorily, but him whom I did not like I would drive him wild. I would throw down the garden walls and let the beasts in. Then she made of me a wolf on the hill. I was killing the sheep on her, and every day there were six or seven heads of the best sheep dead by me.’