Vulgar words in The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology (Page 1)
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Look at thy food and drink, they are not spoiled; and look at thine ass; for we will make thee a sign to men.
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In Mohammed's time, however, it should be noted, the number of the sleepers was undetermined; they were credited with a dog who slept with them, like Ezra's ass; and Mohammed's notion of the time they slept was only one hundred years.
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As it is told in Denmark the enchanted princess agrees with the king's son to wind a red silken thread around her little finger; and by this means he identifies her, though in the form of a little grey-haired, long-eared she-ass, and again of a wrinkled, toothless, palsied old woman, into which the sorceress, whose captive she is, changes her.