The story of the weasel and the well. Once a young girl, beautifully dressed, lost herself in the desert on her way home. Getting very thirsty and seeing a well with a rope and a bucket attached, she descended. When she had slaked her thirst she could not ascend, so she cried aloud. A man passing by, heard her cry and after assuring himself that she was not a demon he drew her out. Then he fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. She asked him who he was and he answered that he was a priest. Then she told him that she was of a noble family and that if he wished to marry her they must pledge their troth to each other and go and ask her hand of her parents. They pledged their troth and she said “Who will be witnesses’ ?” At this moment a weasel passed and she said, “The heavens, the weasel and the well shall be our witnesses”. Then they parted. She kept her troth and when her parents wanted to marry her to another man she behaved like one possessed of a demon, till the suitors ceased to ask for her hand. She kept her covenant with the man, but he forgot her and married another woman, by whom he had a boy. When the child was three months old the weasel came and strangled him and when another child was born it fell into a well and was drowned. So his wife said to him: “The peculiar deaths of these children point to some extraordinary reason, what is it?” Then he told her the whole story and she said to him: “Go and take the part which has been given to thee by God!” So he went into the town and asked after the girl, and they told him that she was possessed of a demon, and he said “I will take her none the less.” When he saw her she behaved as usual. Then he mentioned to her the weasel and the well and she recognised him at once, married him and they lived happily ever after.