"The Master and His Pupil" is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales.[1]

Synopsis

A learned man had a book in which he had the knowledge to control demons. His foolish pupil one day found it open and read a spell from it. Beelzebub (a demon) appeared and demanded a task from him, or he would strangle him. The pupil set him to watering a flower, but Beezlebub went on watering it until the room was filling with water. At that point, the man, having remembered he left his book unlocked, returned and dispelled Beezlebub.

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References

  1. ↑ Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: G. P. Putnam and Sons. 1890. pp. 74-77 and 251.


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