Vulgar words in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning - With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland (Page 1)
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On entering the dreary path she would meet an old man driving a lame ass, laden with wood, and the old man would ask her for help, but she was to pass him by in silence.
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She saw the old man with the overladen ass, she permitted Charon to take the piece of money from her lips, she stopped her ears against the cry of the dead man floating in the black river, she gave the honey bread to Kerberos, and she refused the soft cushions and the banquet offered to her by the queen of the infernal regions.
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There came a wild ass of enormous size, with a skin like the sun, and a black stripe along his back, and this creature got amongst the king's horses and killed them.
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Now the wild ass was no other than a very powerful Div, named Akvan, who haunted a particular fountain or spring.