Ep. 1170 - The Blue Fairy Book - The Terrible Head, Pt. 3

Their hair was as white as the snow, and their flesh of an icy blue, and they mumbled and nodded in a kind of dream, and their frozen breath hung round them like a cloud. Now the opening of the cave in the ice was narrow, and it was not easy to pass in without touching one of the Grey Sisters. But, floating on the Shoes of Swiftness, the boy just managed to steal in, and waited till one of the sisters said to another, who had their one eye:

‘Sister, what do you see? do you see old times coming back?’

‘No, sister.’

‘Then give me the eye, for perhaps I can see farther than you.’