The ogress came out after him and finding him terrified and trembling, said to him, 'Why dost thou fear?
When theogress heard his prayer, she departed from him and he resumed to the King his father and informed him of the Vizier's conduct: whereupon the King sent for the latter and put him to death.
But the bottle slipped from his hand and fell, the life of the ogress escaped from it, and she died.
But the ogress queen hated him and compassed his death.
So the old ogress took him into her confidence and shewed him seven cocks, a spinning wheel, a pigeon, and a starling.
The secret was thus revealed by an old ogress to a captive princess who pretended to fear lest the ogress should die.
There he presented himself before the ogress queen and said, "See, I have your life in my hand, but I will not kill you till you have replaced the eyes which you took from the forty queens.
The story in its main outlines is identical with the Cashmeer story of "The Ogress Queen" (J.
In this is found the creation myth of the Ogress of Saddle Mountain, relating the issuing forth of Indians from eggs cast down the mountain-side by the Ogress.
The poor man, seeing plainly that an ogress was not to be trifled with, took his great knife and went up to little Aurora's room.
I will," said the Queen, and she said it in the voice of an ogress longing to eat fresh meat; "and I will have her served with my favourite sauce.
He carried the child to his wife, who hid him where she had hidden his sister, and then cooked a very tender little kid in the place of little Day, which the ogress thought wonderfully good.
The ogress was astonished at her husband's kindness, never guessing what he meant, and only fancying that he wished her to go and put on their clothes.
But Rosamond now regarded that little throb of affection as a momentary weakness into which the deceitful ogress had betrayed her, and almost despised herself for it.
The fearlessness of Agnes was only ignorance: she did not know what it was to be hurt; she had never read a single story of giant, or ogress or wolf; and her mother had never carried out one of her threats of punishment.
Does Mistress Ogress fancy a princess will bear that?
Was there another--another besides the ogress who turned out to be the sensible girl?
And the ogress wasn't an ogressat all, but just a girl--a sensible girl.
The fattest sheep, kine, and hogs were chosen from the flocks and were brought in to be stall-fed in such numbers that one might have supposed we were expecting an ogress who could eat an ox at a meal.
Do you believe that I am an ogress thirsting for blood, Dorothy, that you offer me your life for his?
He took him up in his arms and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and instead of little Day he served up a young and very tender kid, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good.
When the ogress saw what had happened, she fell into a violent passion, and threw herself head foremost into the tub, and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown into it by others.
All hitherto was mighty well; but a few evenings after this craving, the ogress said to the clerk of the kitchen, "I will also eat the young queen with the same sauce that I had with the children.
It is in the third that the Ogress dwells, unless, indeed, she has already set out upon her nocturnal hunt for human flesh.
The battle-ogress is the axe which bites in battle.
O'er the battle-ogress saw I flow Ruby rivers all aglow.
When the Ogress came back from the cellar she went up to her and looked at her work.
Saying which, the Ogress fetched one of the Ogre's stockings, and the widow's child put a big basin into the heel to stretch it, and began to darn.
As the widow's little girl wouldn't work if her companions were killed, the Ogress cooked the pigs one after another, and the children were all sent away with burnt forefingers.
At first the Ogress would not hear of such a thing, but at last she consented, and made a stew of one of the little pigs instead of cooking the little girl.
The Ogre was quite contented with his dinner, and the Ogress got great praise for the way in which she had darned his stockings.
Guided by the needles, they arrived just as the Ogress was sharpening the big knife for the last time.
The Ogress scratched her big ear thoughtfully for a minute, and then she said: "To lose a chance is to cheat oneself.
I even fancied that her teeth were long and pointed, and that she resembled a picture of an ogress I had seen when a child.
The picture of the terrible ogress that I had seen when a child, and the story of the little children which she had devoured, assumed a fearful reality, and became strangely mingled in my dreams with this woman's face.
And the ogress made answer: 'This is what should be done--but it is well no one knows it.
In the night, in a cave where she takes shelter, she hears an ogre and ogress talking over what has happened, and they say that the only cure is an ointment made of their blood.
He mounted his horse and travelled into the midst of the desert, where he perceived an ogress seated and pounding wheat with a millstone on her arm.
Once when my father was out hunting he was charmed by an ogress who lived in a cave under a waterfall, and with her he begat this bugbear.
Only, my dear mother ogress show me the way, and I shall bring her, with the permission of God.
The mistress of the tavern and many of the women who had remained (and amongst whom was the ogress of the tapis-franc) had hastily laid the wounded man on a mattress, and then stanched and bound his wound with napkins.
When the Chourineur had uttered the name of La Goualeuse, the ogress had raised her head and looked at Fleur-de-Marie.
You are the luckiest man that ever was born,' said the ogress as she went out of the cave as usual.
In the morning, the ogress bade him sweep the dust out of the cave, and to have it clean before her return in the evening, otherwise it would be the worse for him.
Scarcely had they disappeared when the ogress came back, and found everything ready just as she had ordered.
When the sun rose the ogress awoke the young man, and called to him to choose any three things out of her house.
About midnight he was awakened by a noise, and peeping out he beheld a terrible ogress approaching.
The work went merrily on, and they talked gaily, and the young man told his friends of the payment promised him by the ogress if he had done her bidding.
He had not long to wait, after the ogress came home, before he knew what his punishment was to be!
He soon gave up the task, and sat sulkily in the corner, wondering what punishment the ogress would find for him, and why she had set him to do such an impossible thing.
The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun.
Then Laufer told them that Blauvor was not the wife of a king, but an ogress who had stolen her from a neighbouring palace and had brought her up as her daughter.
And besides being anogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail.
Directly the ogress returned home she flung herself with all her weight on the bed, and the whole cave quivered under her.
The ogre and ogress scrambled into the oven as quick as thought, and the fox banged the door on them; just as he did so the king came up.
But one little feather they kept out, and told the young man that if the ogress missed it he was to thrust it up her nose.
The ogress recognised the voices of the queen and her children, and was enraged to find she had been tricked.
To the ogress the steward served up, in place of Day, a young kid so tender that she found it surpassingly delicious.
It should also be noted that the fairy ogress is a large woman, apparently a giantess, while her three sons have the red hair so often associated with the fairies.
This Gruagach was closely related to the fairies, and, indeed, we shall find later in a Donegal story a giant ogress spoken of as a fairy woman.
How long Palaeolithic man survived in Ireland it would be difficult to say, but in such characters as the fairy ogress we are brought face to face with a very low form of savagery.
The Ogress then came to court, and lived very happily for many years, enjoying the vast fortune she had found in the Ogre's chests.
So by the time Granny Marrable returned into residence she was not confronted with an invalid still plausibly convalescent, but an eatable little boy, from the ogress point of view, who used a crutch when reminded of his undertaking to do so.
All theogress rose in her heart when she saw our little friend Dave Wardle.
Whereupon the ogress said with gravity, after due reflection: "I think you are right, ma'am.
The case was analogous to that of an ogress balked of her meal, after going to no end of expense in humanised cream and such-like.
All the ogress seemed to die out of Widow Thrale in her presence, and the visitors avoided contact with her studiously.
The ogress came back from the convalescents; having assigned them their teas, and enjoined peace.
The first demon to threaten Krishna's life is a hugeogress named Putana.
The ogress waited another day before she asked to see the precious thing.
Doubting nothing, the beautiful princess complied, when the ogress seized the ring, and reassuming the form of a bee flew away with it to the palace, where the prince was lying nearly on the point of death.
At that moment the ogress came up and asked him, 'Did you give my message to your father and mother?
So the ogress gave Halfman a pile of wood and an axe, and then set out with her husband, leaving Halfman and her daughter busy in the house.
At last Halfman rose up and said to his wife, 'Be comforted; we will wait a year, and then I will go to the ogress and see the boy, and how he is cared for.
And Halfman whispered to his brothers, 'Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.
Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herself into a scorpion, and when the brother was going to get into bed, she stung him behind the ear, so that he fell dead where he stood.
The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands before her, so that she might not fall against anything unawares, for she had only a tiny lantern slung at her waist, which did not give much light.
The next day the ogress came again, and asked the boy what answer the father had given.
By this time the ogress had slain all her daughters but one, who awoke suddenly and saw what had happened.
The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without knowing where he was going, till he suddenly found the ogress standing before him.
We fell in with an ogress who took us home and would have killed us if it had not been for Halfman.
Day by day the boy grew bigger, and one day as he was playing in the street with the other children, the ogress came by.
The year passed away, then Halfman saddled his horse, and rode to the place where the ogress had found him sleeping.
The ogress was as good as her word, and in a few minutes they arrived at the outskirts of the town where Halfman and his brothers lived.
As it was impossible to get away from her eyrie except in the vampire chariot, the ogress and her nine daughters lived there for a year and a day, gnashing their teeth over their changed lot; and then they slowly starved to death.
Next day, the ogress came again into the kitchen to see about the supper dish for the evening, and in her zeal to prove that Jim was really ready for cooking, she bit his ear so that he could not help uttering a little squeal.
Such a dainty dish as this you have served me deserves a reward, my dear," he said in a greasy voice, while the ogress meekly dipped some bread in the gravy as her share of the feast.
Day after day passed, Dimple continuing to make excuses for failing to serve the coveted dainty, and exerting all her skill to cook such dishes as might make the ogress forget her disappointment.
Don't waste time on a cripple like me, lass; but make haste to slip down the rope and escape, before the ogress finds out what has happened.
Happily the thrower was of the feminine gender, and so the projectiles missed their aim; but, as Dimple dodged around in a dark corner of the kitchen, the ogress continued to scold her angrily.
The ogress lifted the prisoner as unconcernedly as one would handle a dead turkey and, carrying him below, threw him down upon the kitchen table, repeating her lord's directions to the cook.
In her sleepy state, it did not occur to the ogress to wonder how Dimple, whose presence in the castle had so long been hidden from the giant, should have been chosen as his messenger.
As soon as the ogress found out the escape of her treacherous cook, her anger knew no bounds.
