Cut wood for a reel, and you shall die, Wind onto it, and ruin your life.
He stopped, took fright, and wondered what was happening. But a little while later he took heart again, and for a third time he reached for the ax and was about to chop away.
But for a third time there came a call from below, saying loudly:
Cut wood for a reel, and you shall die, Wind onto it, and ruin your life.
That was enough for him. He no longer had any desire to cut wood, so he hastily climbed down from the tree, and set forth toward home.
The woman took a shortcut and ran as fast as she could in order to get home first. When he entered the parlor, she put on an innocent look as if nothing had happened, and said, "Well, did you bring a good piece of wood for a reel?"
"No," he said, "I see very well that winding onto a reel is not possible," and he told her what had happened to him in the woods. From then on he said nothing more about it.
Nevertheless, a short time later the man began to complain again about the disorder in the house. "Wife," he said, "it is a real shame that the spun yarn is just lying there on the bobbin."
"Do you know what?" she said. "Because we still don't have a reel, you go up into the loft. I will stand down below and throw the bobbin up to you, then you will throw it down to me, and thus we can make a skein after all."
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