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 ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER.

 

For Context:

THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER

Then she was overwhelmed with fear at the thought of what she had done.

‘If only I can prevent anyone knowing that I did it,’ she thought.

So she went upstairs to her room, and took a white handkerchief out of her top drawer; then she set the boy’s head again on his shoulders, and bound it with the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and placed him on a chair by the door with an apple in his hand.

Soon after this, little Marleen came up to her mother who was stirring a pot of boiling water over the fire, and said, ‘Mother, brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand, and he looks so pale; and when I asked him to give me the apple, he did not answer, and that frightened me.’

‘Go to him again,’ said her mother, ‘and if he does not answer, give him a box on the ear.’

So little Marleen went, and said, ‘Brother, give me that apple,’ but he did not say a word; then she gave him a box on the ear, and his head rolled off.

She was so terrified at this, that she ran crying and screaming to her mother.

‘Oh!’

she said, ‘I have knocked off brother’s head,’ and then she wept and wept, and nothing would stop her.

‘What have you done!’ said her mother, ‘but no one must know about it, so you must keep silence; what is done can’t be undone; we will make him into puddings.’

And she took the little boy and cut him up, made him into puddings, and put him in the pot.