As his wife used to give her ham to eat, the man offers her some also.
"Will you take your supper now?"
"Yes, if you please," replies the fairy.
He puts the frying-pan on the fire with a bit of ham. While that was
cooking, and when it was red, red-hot, he throws it right into the
fairy's face. The poor fairy begins to cry out, and then come thirty
of her friends.
"Who has done any harm to you?"
"I, to myself; I have hurt myself." [53]
"If you have done it yourself, cure it yourself."
And all the fairies go off, and since then there came no more fairies
to that house. This gentleman and lady were formerly so well off,
but since the fairy comes no longer the house little by little goes
to ruin, and their life was spent in wretchedness. If they had lived
well they would have died well too.
Estefanella Hirigaray.