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 hand and offers it to him if he plays a tune for her, the apple vanishes at once and the music begins. In the end the invisible player becomes rather a nuisance, playing practical jokes, breaking windows, and creating general confusion. He even snatches away the food at meals and then jeeringly plays his flute in a corner. Finally he is driven away by means of rhyming incantations. (Mullenhaff, Sagen Märchen.)