The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders

by The Brothers Grimm

　　

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I will tell you something. I saw two roasted fowls flying; they flewquickly and had their breasts turned to heaven and their backs tohell, and an anvil and a mill-stone swam across the Rhine prettily,slowly, and gently, and a frog sat on the ice at Whitsuntide and ate aploughshare. Three fellows who wanted to catch a hare, went on crutchesand stilts; one of them was deaf, the second blind, the third dumb,and the fourth could not stir a step. Do you want to know how it wasdone? First, the blind man saw the hare running across the field, thedumb one called to the lame one, and the lame one seized it by the neck.

　　There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set theirsails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailedover a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab waschasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on theroof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country the flies areas big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the lies may fly out.

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