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 SWEETHEART ROLAND.

 

For Context:

SWEETHEART ROLAND

She put on her many-league boots, in which she covered an hour’s walk at every step, and it was not long before she overtook them.

The girl, however, when she saw the old woman striding towards her, changed, with her magic wand, her sweetheart Roland into a lake, and herself into a duck swimming in the middle of it.

The witch placed herself on the shore, threw breadcrumbs in, and went to endless trouble to entice the duck; but the duck did not let herself be enticed, and the old woman had to go home at night as she had come.

At this the girl and her sweetheart Roland resumed their natural shapes again, and they walked on the whole night until daybreak.

Then the maiden changed herself into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.

It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: ‘Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?’

‘Oh, yes,’ he replied, ‘I will play to you while you do it.’

As she was hastily creeping into the hedge and was just going to pluck the flower, knowing perfectly well who the flower was, he began to play, and whether she would or not, she was forced to dance, for it was a magical dance.

The faster he played, the more violent springs was she forced to make, and the thorns tore her clothes from her body, and pricked her and wounded her till she bled, and as he did not stop, she had to dance till she lay dead on the ground.

As they were now set free, Roland said: ‘Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding.’

‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the girl, ‘and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.’