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Rh youngest, however, was of incomparable beauty. She was admired like the beautiful Venus, the Goddess of love. Psyche finds, however, only admirers but no husband and her sorrowing father receives the following answer from the oracle:

Place the maiden high on the rocky crag of the mountain, Adorned in the sorrowful garb of marital woe. Do not hope for a son-in-law of mortal birth A terrible one will arise from the dragon's tribe Then flying through the air he pursues them all And brings them all woe with fire and sword, Job trembles before him, all the gods fear him, The sea shudders before him: even the Stygian night.

Instead of to her wedding, Psyche was conducted, in obedience to the Oracle, up the mountain in her bridal attire.

In characteristic manner she herself (like other fairy-tale princesses in similar sagas) is less troubled than those about her and urges herself to the fulfillment of the Oracle's command. (One is tempted to say: She just knows that nothing evil will befall her!)

Above, the anxious, trembling Psyche was seized by the soft zephyrs and wafted to a valley and placed on a bed of flowers.

On awaking she found herself in a fairy grove and sees before her a house built by godly skill (a magic castle) from the