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ing, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being out a hunting, on that side of the country. asked what these towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood; everyone answered according as they had heard; some said it was an old ruinous castle hunted by spirits; others, that all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept their sabbath, or weekly meeting in that place.
The most common opinion was, that an Ogree[1] lived there, and that, he carried thither all the little Children, he could catch, that he might eat them up at leisure, without any body being able to follow him, as having himself only power to pass thro’ the wood.
The Prince was at a stand not knowing what to belive, when an aged man spoke to him thus:
"May it please your Highness,
"It is about fifty years since I heard from my father, who heard my grandfather say, that there was then in this castle a Princess, the most beautiful that
- ↑ An Ogree is Giant with long teeth and claws, with a raw head and bloody bones, who runs away with naughty little Boys and Girls, and ate them all up.
