The old Dew mother bade the girl come near and asked her this and that.  The maiden pleased her very much.  “I will go and bring you a fish,” she said, “you are certainly hungry.”  But the fishes were snakes and dragons.  The girl was sorely frightened and began to cry with terror.  The old Dew said, “Maiden, why do you weep?” She answered, “I have just thought of my mother, and for her sake I weep.”  Then she told the old mother everything that had happened to her.  “If that is so,” said the Dew, “sit down here and I will lay my head on your knee and go to sleep.”

She made up the fire, stuck the poker into the stove, and said: 

“When the devil flies by do not waken me.  If the rainbow-colored one passes near, take the glowing poker from the stove and lay it on my foot.”

The maiden’s heart crept into her heels from fright.  What was she to do?  She sat down, the Dew laid her head on her knees and slept.  Soon she saw a horrible black monster flying by.  The maiden was silent.  After a while there came flying by a rainbow-colored creature.  She seized the glowing poker and threw it on the old Dew’s foot.  The old mother awoke and said, “Phew, how the fleas bite.”  She rose and lifted up the maiden.  The girl’s hair and clothing were turned to gold from the splendor of the rainbow colors.  She kissed the old Dew’s hand and begged that she might go.  She went away, and taking her sheep-brother with her started for home.  The stepmother was not there, and the maiden secretly dug a hole, buried her golden dress, and sat down and put on an old one.

The stepmother came home and saw that the maiden had golden hair.

“What have you done to your hair to make it like gold?” she asked.  The maiden told her all, how and when.  The next day the stepmother sent her own daughter to the same mountain.  The stepmother’s daughter purposely let her distaff fall and it rolled into the hole.  She went in to get it, but the old Dew mother turned her into a scarecrow and sent her home.

About that time there was a wedding in the royal castle; the King was giving one of his sons in marriage, and the people came from all directions to look on and enjoy themselves.

The stepmother threw on a kerchief and smartened up the head of her daughter and took her to see the wedding.  The girl with the golden hair did not stay at home, but, putting on her golden dress so that she became from head to foot a gleaming houri, she went after them.

But on the way home, she ran so fast to get there before her stepmother, that she dropped one of her golden shoes in the fountain.  When they led the horses of the King’s second son to drink, the horses caught sight of the golden shoe in the water and drew back and would not drink.  The King caused the wise men to be called, and asked them to make known the reason why the horses would not drink, and they found only the golden shoe.  The King sent out his herald to tell the people that he would marry his son to whomsoever this shoe fitted.