Von Schönwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”
A fisherman employed by a Count that paid him well for how big his catches were suddenly stopped catching fish and was let go. Sat out on water, weeping. Mermaid came to him and said she was the one who gave him all the fish and then took them away, and that if he wanted more he’d have to give her something he didn’t know he had. He agreed and caught a large load.
Went home and shocked his wife with the news– she told him she was with child. They were saddened but said they’d make the boy be a man of the cloth, and comforted themselves with the catch, which the man brought to the Count and…
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