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

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.

See also

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Sweet porridge

References

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

External links

• The full text of The Master and his Pupil at Wikisource

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