Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

“ Take the cloak with you, it is a wishing-cloak. When you throw it round your shoulders you only have to wish yourself at a place to be there at once. Take the heart out of the dead bird and swallow it whole, then you will find a gold coin under your pillow every single morning when you wake.’
The Huntsman thanked the Wise Woman, and thought: ‘She promises fine things, if only they turn out as well.’
When he had gone about a hundred paces, he heard above him, in the branches of a tree, such a chattering and screaming that he looked up. ”

“ But the Old Woman was a witch, and she said to the Maiden: ‘Here comes some one out of the forest. He has a wonderful treasure inside him; we must try to get it from him, my darling, it will suit us better than him. He has a bird’s heart about him, and therefore he finds a gold coin every morning under his pillow when he wakes.’
She told the girl how he had got it, and at last said: ‘If you don’t get it from him, it will be the worse for you.’
When the Huntsman got nearer, he saw the Maiden, and said: ‘I have been wandering about for a long time, I will go into this castle and take a rest. ”

“ A few days later the Miller came and told him that the old ass which was to be beaten three times and fed once, was dead. ‘The other two,’ he said, ‘which are to be fed three times, are not dead, but they are pining away, and won’t last long.’
The Huntsman’s heart was stirred with pity, and he told the Miller to bring them back to him.
When they came he gave them some of the other salad to eat, so that they took their human shapes again.
The beautiful Maiden fell on her knees before him, and said: ‘O my beloved, forgive me all the wrong I have done you. My mother forced me to do it. ”