--- title: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12 — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "The merchant was very glad. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12 # Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12 Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12 of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 125 sentences and 2655 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/1/) — "The merchant was very glad. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/2/) — On returning to his house, he at once sent the dog back to its old master with a letter rolled under the collar, wherein he had written about the sagacity of the beast, and begged his friend to forget the loan and to accept another five thousand rupees as a present. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/3/) — When this merchant saw his dog coming back again, he thought, 'Alas! my friend is wanting the money. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/4/) — How can I pay him? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/5/) — I have not had sufficient time to recover myself from my recent losses. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/6/) — I will slay the dog ere he reaches the threshold, and say that another must have slain it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/7/) — Thus there will be an end of my debt. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/8/) — No dog, no loan.' - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/9/) — Accordingly he ran out and killed the poor dog, when the letter fell out of its collar. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/10/) — The merchant picked it up and read it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/11/) — How great was his grief and disappointment when he knew the facts of the case! - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/12/) — "Beware," continued the prince, "lest you do that which afterwards you would give your life not to have done." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/13/) — By the time the prince had concluded this story it was nearly morning, and he went away, after rewarding the man. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/14/) — The prince then visited the country belonging to his brother-in-law. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/15/) — He disguised himself as a jogi, and sitting down by a tree near the palace, pretended to be absorbed in worship. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/16/) — News of the man and of his wonderful piety reached the ears of the king. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/17/) — He felt interested in him, as his wife was very ill; and he had sought for hakims to cure her, but in vain. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/18/) — He thought that, perhaps, this holy man could do something for her. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/19/) — So he sent to him. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/20/) — But the jogi refused to tread the halls of a king, saying that his dwelling was the open air, and that if his Majesty wished to see him he must come himself and bring his wife to the place. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/21/) — Then the king took his wife and brought her to the jogi. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/22/) — The holy man bade her prostrate herself before him, and when she had remained in this position for about three hours, he told her to rise and go, for she was cured. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/23/) — In the evening there was great consternation in the palace, because the queen had lost her pearl rosary, and nobody knew anything about it. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/24/) — At length some one went to the jogi, and found it on the ground by the place where the queen had prostrated herself. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/25/) — When the king heard this he was very angry, and ordered the jogi to be executed. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/26/) — This stern order, however, was not carried out, as the prince bribed the men and escaped from the country. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/27/) — But he knew that the second bit of advice was true. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/28/) — Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when he saw a potter crying and laughing alternately with his wife and children. " - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/29/) — O fool," said he, "what is the matter? - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/30/) — If you laugh, why do you weep? - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/31/) — If you weep, why do you laugh?" - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/32/) — "Do not bother me," said the potter. " - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/33/) — What does it matter to you?" - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/34/) — "Pardon me," said the prince, "but I should like to know the reason." - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/35/) — "The reason is this, then," said the potter. " - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/36/) — The king of this country has a daughter whom he is obliged to marry every day, because all her husbands die the first night of their stay with her. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/37/) — Nearly all the young men of the place have thus perished, and our son will be called on soon. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/38/) — We laugh at the absurdity of the thing--a potter's son marrying a princess, and we cry at the terrible consequence of the marriage. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/39/) — What can we do?" - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/40/) — "Truly a matter for laughing and weeping. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/41/) — But weep no more," said the prince. " - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/42/) — I will exchange places with your son, and will be married to the princess instead of him. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/43/) — Only give me suitable garments, and prepare me for the occasion." - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/44/) — So the potter gave him beautiful raiment and ornaments, and the prince went to the palace. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/45/) — At night he was conducted to the apartment of the princess. " - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/46/) — Dread hour!" thought he; "am I to die like the scores of young men before me?" - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/47/) — He clenched his sword with firm grip, and lay down on his bed, intending to keep awake all the night and see what would happen. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/48/) — In the middle of the night he saw two Shahmars come out from the nostrils of the princess. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/49/) — They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him: but he was ready for them. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/50/) — He laid hold of his sword, and when the snakes reached his bed he struck at them and killed them. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/51/) — In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised to hear his daughter and the prince talking gaily together. " - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/52/) — Surely," said he, "this man must be her husband, as he only can live with her." - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/53/) — "Where do you come from? - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/54/) — Who are you?" asked the king, entering the room. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/55/) — "O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over such-and-such a country." - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/56/) — When he heard this the king was very glad, and bade the prince to abide in his palace, and appointed him his successor to the throne. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/57/) — The prince remained at the palace for more than a year, and then asked permission to visit his own country, which was granted. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/58/) — The king gave him elephants, horses, jewels, and abundance of money for the expenses of the way and as presents for his father, and the prince started. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/59/) — On the way he had to pass through the country belonging to his brother-in-law, whom we have already mentioned. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/60/) — Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with rope-tied hands and haltered neck to do him homage. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/61/) — He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what little hospitality could be provided. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/62/) — While the prince was staying at the palace he saw his sister, who greeted him with smiles and kisses. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/63/) — On leaving he told her how she and her husband had treated him at his first visit, and how he had escaped; and then gave them two elephants, two beautiful horses, fifteen soldiers, and ten lacs rupees' worth of jewels. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/64/) — Afterwards he went to his own home, and informed his mother and father of his arrival. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/65/) — Alas! his parents had both become blind from weeping about the loss of their son. " - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/66/) — Let him come in," said the king, "and put his hands upon our eyes, and we shall see again." - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/67/) — So the prince entered, and was most affectionately greeted by his old parents; and he laid his hands on their eyes, and they saw again. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/68/) — Then the prince told his father all that had happened to him, and how he had been saved several times by attending to the advice that he had purchased from the Brahmani. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/69/) — Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, and all was joy and peace again. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/70/) — The Gold-giving Serpent - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/71/) — Now in a certain place there lived a Brahman named Haridatta. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/72/) — He was a farmer, but poor was the return his labour brought him. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/73/) — One day, at the end of the hot hours, the Brahman, overcome by the heat, lay down under the shadow of a tree to have a doze. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/74/) — Suddenly he saw a great hooded snake creeping out of an ant-hill near at hand. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/75/) — So he thought to himself, "Sure this is the guardian deity of the field, and I have not ever worshipped it. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/76/) — That's why my farming is in vain. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/77/) — I will at once go and pay my respects to it." - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/78/) — When he had made up his mind, he got some milk, poured it into a bowl, and went to the ant-hill, and said aloud: "O Guardian of this Field! all this while I did not know that you dwelt here. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/79/) — That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me." - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/80/) — And he laid the milk down and went to his house. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/81/) — Next morning he came and looked, and he saw a gold denar in the bowl, and from that time onward every day the same thing occurred: he gave milk to the serpent and found a gold denar. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/82/) — One day the Brahman had to go to the village, and so he ordered his son to take the milk to the ant-hill. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/83/) — The son brought the milk, put it down, and went back home. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/84/) — Next day he went again and found a denar, so he thought to himself: "This ant-hill is surely full of golden denars; I'll kill the serpent, and take them all for myself." - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/85/) — So next day, while he was giving the milk to the serpent, the Brahman's son struck it on the head with a cudgel. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/86/) — But the serpent escaped death by the will of fate, and in a rage bit the Brahman's son with its sharp fangs, and he fell down dead at once. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/87/) — His people raised him a funeral pyre not far from the field and burnt him to ashes. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/88/) — Two days afterwards his father came back, and when he learnt his son's fate he grieved and mourned. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/89/) — But after a time, he took the bowl of milk, went to the ant-hill, and praised the serpent with a loud voice. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/90/) — After a long, long time the serpent appeared, but only with its head out of the opening of the ant-hill, and spoke to the Brahman: "'Tis greed that brings you here, and makes you even forget the loss of your son. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/91/) — From this time forward friendship between us is impossible. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/92/) — Your son struck me in youthful ignorance, and I have bitten him to death. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/93/) — How can I forget the blow with the cudgel? - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/94/) — And how can you forget the pain and grief at the loss of your son?" - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/95/) — So speaking, it gave the Brahman a costly pearl and disappeared. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/96/) — But before it went away it said: "Come back no more." - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/97/) — The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of his son. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/98/) — The Son of Seven Queens - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/99/) — Once upon a time there lived a King who had seven Queens, but no children. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/100/) — This was a great grief to him, especially when he remembered that on his death there would be no heir to inherit the kingdom. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/page/2/) - ← previous: [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) - next →: [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)