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Icy Naj Day 25 - Divination by Frogs
Icy North Started conversation Nov 25, 2013
Once upon a time, a girl took a live frog. She stuck it all over with pins, put it in a box, kept it shut up for a week, after which she looked in and found that the frog was dead. She kept it until it was consumed away to bones. Then she took out of the frog a small key-shaped bone and got into the company of a young man she fancied. She fastened the bone to his coat, and said:
I do not want to hurt this frog
But my true lover's heart to turn
Wishing that he no rest may find
Till he come to me and speak his mind.
After this the man suffered a week's torture, as the frog had. He then he went to the girl and said he had had a queer sensation for a week, but he didn't know what it meant. ‘However’, he said, ‘I will marry thee, but I know we shall never be happy’.
They were married and lived very uncomfortably together.
Icy Naj Day 25 - Divination by Frogs
Icy North Posted Nov 25, 2013
Whoops - posted this in the wrong place. To discuss go here: F131941?thread=8306205 or http://h2g2.com/user_journal/U225620/conversation/view/F131941/T8306205
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