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know…» And while the fairies were dancing, she
asked her husband, «Ask the fairies, what does it
take to free you?»
He answered and told: «It takes that the roosters
do not crow, the clocks do not strike, and the
bells do not ring; it takes that a blue canvas with
the moon and the stars conceal the street to make
invisible the light of the new day. And when the
sun reaches mid-heaven, be the canvas pulled!
The fairies will all turn into snakes and lizards
and all go away.»
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