Then the prince said to them: "Gentlemen, my teacher gave it to
me to sell. You had better go and ask him."

Then the chief of police went and asked him: "Holy sir, how did
this pearl necklace come into your pupil's hand?"

And the shrewd counsellor's son whispered to him: "Sir, as I am a
hermit, I wander about all the time in this region. And as I
happened to be here in this cemetery, I saw a whole company of
witches who came here at night. And one of the witches split open
the heart of a king's son, and offered it to her master. She was mad
with wine, and screwed up her face most horribly. But when she
impudently tried to snatch my rosary as I prayed, I became angry,
and branded her on the hip with a three-pronged fork which I had
made red-hot with a magic spell. And I took this pearl necklace
from her neck. Then, as it was not a thing for a hermit, I sent it to
be sold."

When he heard this, the chief of police went and told the whole
story to the king. And when the king heard and saw the evidence,
he sent the old woman, who was reliable, to identify the pearl
necklace. And he heard from her that Lily was branded on the hip.

Then he was convinced that she was really a witch and had
devoured his son. So he went himself to the counsellor's son, who
was disguised as a hermit, and asked how Lily should be punished.
And by his advice, she was banished from the city, though her
parents wept. So she was banished naked to the forest and knew
that the counsellor's son had done it all, but she did not die.