She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.

In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.