... is bound up, and set upon the top of one of the ridges, when the reapers retiring to a certain ... ... throw their sickles at it, and he that cuts the knot has the prize; which done, they cry with a loud voice, I have her, ...
Literatur im Volltext: Adalbert Kuhn / W. Schwartz: Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg,
Pommern, der Mark, Sachsen, Thüringen, Braunschweig, Hannover, Oldenburg und Westfalen. Leipzig
1848, S. 509-525.: Gebräuche