HOW PULOWECH AVENGED THE SEA MAIDEN

FTER the wicked people of the forest had

destroyed the sea maiden, they knew that

they must hide from the angry Pulowech; for he would surely avenge her death.

One sorcerer said, “I will hide myself high up in the cliff beyond the forest. I will turn myself into the stone of the cliff and stay there until the anger of Pulowech passes away.”

“And I,” said another sorcerer, “will go far beyond that place, and climb in the cliff and stay there turned into stone until the anger of Pulowech passes away.”

“And I will go far beyond the reach of Pulo— wech into another country,” the third sorcerer said.

Then the oldest sorcerer of all, an old woman whom they called “Grandmother” said, “I will go far beyond you, my son. I will go beyond the Cavern of Darkness. Pulowech will never find me there.”

There was still a band of the sorcerers left,

and they said, “We will turn ourselves into a 118