The girl, however, continues to weep onto the stumps replacing her hands, so they remain clean and the devil still cannot take her. Out of fear, the miller and his daughter agree to this. The devil threatens to take the miller in place of his daughter unless he cuts off the girl's hands. The girl had kept herself free of sin and her hands clean, and because of this the devil is unable to take her. After three years, the devil reappears to take the girl as he had said. The miller discovers that it was his own daughter standing behind the mill and that the man was the devil. Believing that it was only an apple tree, and unaware of the stranger's identity, the miller agrees. The Mutilated Heroine: A strange man approaches a miller and offers him riches in exchange for whatever he found standing behind the mill. Throughout different variations, the story takes place in four sections. The story was revised by the Grimm brothers over the years, and the final version was published in the 7th edition of Children's and Household Tales in 1857. It is tale number 31 and was first published in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. " The Girl Without Hands" or " The helpless Maiden" or " The Armless Maiden" ( German: Das Mädchen ohne Hände) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. 19th century illustration by Philipp Grot Johann
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