the twelve oxen
there were twelve brothers who fell out with their father, and all twelve of them left home they built themselves a house in the woods and made their living as carpenters meanwhile their parents had a baby girl, who was a great comfort to them the child grew up without ever meeting her twelve brothers she had only heard them mentioned, and she longed to see them
one day she went to bathe at a fountain, and the first thing she did was remove her coral necklace and hang it on a twig a raven came by, grabbed the necklace, and flew off with it the girl ran into the woods after the raven and found her brothers' house no one was at home, so she cooked the noodles, spooned them onto the brothers' plates, and hid under a bed the brothers returned and, finding the noodles ready and waiting, sat down and ate but then they grew uneasy, suspecting the witches had played a joke on them, for the woods were full of witches
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