Grimm's Fairy Tales Bibliomancy Reading

This oracle randomly selects line from one of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The surrounding passages are provided for context.

 

Your line is from THE WHITE SNAKE.

 

For Context:

THE WHITE SNAKE

But when he saw it he could not deny himself the pleasure of tasting it, so he cut of a little bit and put it into his mouth.

No sooner had it touched his tongue than he heard a strange whispering of little voices outside his window.

He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods.

Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.

Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.

The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.

In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.

In his trouble and fear he went down into the courtyard and took thought how to help himself out of his trouble.

Now some ducks were sitting together quietly by a brook and taking their rest; and, whilst they were making their feathers smooth with their bills, they were having a confidential conversation together.

The servant stood by and listened.

They were telling one another of all the places where they had been waddling about all the morning, and what good food they had found; and one said in a pitiful tone: ‘Something lies heavy on my stomach; as I was eating in haste I swallowed a ring which lay under the queen’s window.’