The wizard drank and drank, walked about and walked about, and grew angry, drove all the guests and the family out of the izbá , 6 scattered all the wedding guests, took out two bladders and an awl, pricked the hands of the bride and bridegroom and drew their blood, filling the bladders with the blood. He did this and said to the soldier, “Now we will leave the house.”

On the road the soldier asked him, “Tell me, why did you fill the bladders with the blood?”

“So that the bride and bridegroom might die. Tomorrow nobody will be able to wake them up: I only know one means of reviving them.”

“What is that?”