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 SALAD.

 

For Context:

THE SALAD

And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: ‘If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!’

And as he felt pity for them, he raised the ladder, and climbed up, unbound one of them after the other, and brought down all seven.

Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.

But they sat there and did not stir, and the fire caught their clothes.

So he said: ‘Take care, or I will hang you up again.’

The dead men, however, did not hear, but were quite silent, and let their rags go on burning.

At this he grew angry, and said: ‘If you will not take care, I cannot help you, I will not be burnt with you,’ and he hung them up again each in his turn.

Then he sat down by his fire and fell asleep, and the next morning the man came to him and wanted to have the fifty talers, and said: ‘Well do you know how to shudder?’

‘No,’ answered he, ‘how should I know?

Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.’

Then the man saw that he would not get the fifty talers that day, and went away saying: ‘Such a youth has never come my way before.’