The caption for this illustration reads: The veele (water nymphs) came to the spring to bathe. The king has died and one son took from the other his money, inheritance, and eyes. The poor prince sits by the spring (seen here) and hears veele talk about the healing waters and that the princess has prince washes his eye sockets and his sight is returned. He takes water for the princess. She is cured and they marry. The jealous brother goes to the spring and hears the veele, who, angered that someone knows their secret, kill him.
The caption for this illustration reads: The veele came to the spring to bathe. In Serbian myth, veele are water nymphs. The youth here is a prince, whose father, the king, had died, and whose brother cunningly took all his money and inheritance and eyes from him. As he sits by the spring (seen here), he overhears the veele talk about the healing properties of the water and that the king of the land where he is now has leprosy. The prince washes his eye sockets and his sight is returned. He then takes water to the king for his daughter. She is cured and they marry. The jealous brother goes to the spring where he knew his brother had sat after losing his eyes. He sits there and hears the veele, too. But the veele are angry that someone knows their secret. They see the brother and kill him. The illustration is from a 1921 book on Serbian myths and legends.
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