Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

“ At last she came to a room where a very very old woman was sitting. "Pray, can you tell me, my good woman," said she, "if my bridegroom lives here?" "Ah! my dear child!" said the old woman, "you are come to fall into the trap laid for you: your wedding can only be with Death, for the robber will surely take away your life! if I do not save you, you are lost!" so she hid the bride behind a large cask, and then said to her, "Do not stir or move yourself at all lest some harm should befall you; and when the robbers are asleep we will run off; I have long wished to get away." ”

“ But she hid me behind a large cask; and hardly had she done this, when the robbers came in dragging a young woman along with them; then they gave her three kinds of wine to drink, white, red, and yellow, till she fell dead upon the ground;—I only dreamt that, my love. After they had done this, one of the robbers saw that there was a gold ring on her little finger, and snatched at it ”