COMMENTAIRE INCIPIT THERESE RAQUIN

« asked him: - Oh green hill, why do you become greener? - That's because Hayna went through here.

Arrived at an orange hill, he asked him: - Oh orange hill, why do you become even more orange? - That's because Hayna went through here.

Arrived in front of a yellow hill, he asked him: - Oh yellow hill, why do you become even more yellow? - That's because Haina went through here.

When he arrived at the white hill, he asked: - Oh white hill, why do you become even whiter? - That's because Haina lives here. Adil then saw a house on the hill, the house of Ghoul.

He cautiously approached and saw a rooster to whom he asked to inform Hayna of his visit.

The rooster entered the house to warn her, but Hayna did not believe it.

He went back to see Adil who said to him: - Tell me, what is Hayna doing now? - She weaves the wool and the Ghoul went hunting.

- Then go back, put your claws in the wool and come back here.

She will follow you.

Hayna thus discovered her fiancé and was overcome with relief.

However, she said sadly: - You took so many risks, but the Ghoul come back soon.

You have to hide.

She hid Adil in a cellar.

When the Ghoul arrived, he snorted and said to Haina: - Hayna, traitress! The smell of the intruder is in my house! - There are no intruders or people.

Here are my hair, take it and go to bed.

The Ghoul used to fall asleep holding Hayna's long hair in his thick, hairy hand to keep him from escaping while he slept.

As he slept deeply, Adil came out of his hiding place to deliver Hayna.

With a knife, he cut the hair that held prisoner Hayna.

Thus delivered, Hayna rushed to throw salt on all the magic utensils of the house that could prevent the Ghoul from escaping, but she forgot to put some on the pestle.

As she settled on the horse of her ficancé, who was waiting outside, the pestle began to shout: - Tan tan, head not waking up, tan tan, Hayna fled! The ogre awoke suddenly and pursued them in vain until exhaustion.

Resigned, he threw them, "If you see two ravens killing each other, do not separate them, and if you see two mountains clinging together, do not go between them." But Adil went beyond the recommendations of Ghoul.

He passed between the two mountains and he lost his horse.

When he separated the two crows, he was devoured by one and turned himself into a raven, while Hayna was transformed into a bitch.

She was adopted by a family of hunters who lived in a house not far away.

Every night, Adil in the form of a raven came to hear from his beloved: Hayna, O Hayna, what are you dining with tonight? - My dinner is sleeping with the dogs - How sad...

One day, however, the father asked his wife to prepare a good dinner for the dog and have her sleep among her daughters.

That evening, the raven came back to ask the same question: Hayna, O Hayna, what are you dining with. »