" He retired into a solitary and unfrequented marsh, and showed himself no more among his fellows.
On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
The children of the marsh, the Frogs - I am voting for them.
Perhaps he's in the water in the marsh!
" And this is what the Moor-woman told: "There was a great commotion yesterday out here in the marsh!
They assumed the shapes of antediluvian animals, of eagles hovering in the air, of frogs leaping over a marsh, and then sunk down upon the rushing stream and appeared to sail upon it, although floating in the air.
The marsh will bear horse and rider, the bishop with his priests and armed men.
She sank into the ground, and went down to the Marsh Woman, who is always brewing there.
He betook himself to the marsh, and collected a few little bubbles of stagnant water.
It may well be called the Wild Moor; and one can easily imagine, with such a wild expanse of marsh and lake, how lonely and dreary it must have been a thousand years ago.
It was in our own days; the lake had been transformed into marsh land; the whole baronial seat had, as it were, disappeared.
In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars.
" Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh.
"It is shameful that the lamps are not lighted here, and it is as muddy as if one were walking in a marsh.
So she passed quickly through the wood and the marsh, and between the rushing whirlpools.
We will place her on one of the water-lily leaves out in the stream; it will be like an island to her, she is so light and small, and then she cannot escape; and, while she is away, we will make haste and prepare the state-room under the marsh, in which you are to live when you are married.
