Salutations
All!
Here’s a Derbyshire fairy tale from SO
Addy’s, the collector of local stories. This is a story is said to have
originated in the Derbyshire town of
Eckington and in true fairy tale tradition it’s thought that this story was a
morality tale told to young children.
It tells of a young girl with a golden
cup. One day, her mother told her that she was going out and that the girl
could while away the time playing with the cup. The girl asked a servant to get
the cup for her from a cupboard, but the maid was too busy. The girl kept
asking the servant over and over again whether she could have her cup.
But what happened next? The servant,
infuriated with the girl’s constant nagging, murdered her and buried the girl’s
body under one of the flagstones in the cellar. The mother returned later that
day and asked the servant where her daughter was. The servant claimed that
she’d not seen the daughter in hours. The mother looked for a while but
couldn’t find her.
Now, I’ll let SO Addy finish off the tale
in his own words:
Then
the mother was deeply grieved, and she sat up all that night and all the next.
On the third night as she sat alone and wide awake she heard the voice of her
daughter outside the door saying, “Can I have my golden cup?” the mother opened
the door, and when her daughter had repeated the question three times she saw
her spirit, but the spirit vanished at once, and she never saw it more.
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