There were two girls who hadn’t been talked about, so nobody knew them. On the night before Three Kings’ Day, they were out dancing and got hot, so they went outside to get some fresh air. There was a lad standing by the wall. He overheard them talking
One asked the other, "Where are we riding tonight?"
"We are going to sever the moon."
And the other said, "No, tonight let’s ride to the place where green peas grow."
One of them asked, "What shall we ride on?"
"There is a bee hive lying over there."
The lad went and crawled into that bee hive.
After a while, the two mounted the bee hive, rose high into the air, and started riding. One of them said, "What’s wrong here?  It’s so difficult to ride. There’s a man in here!"
The other replied, "No, that’s not true."
So they rode to where the peas grow and dropped the lad with the bee hive into the peas, while they themselves ran away working miracles. One of them said, "When 1 pluck some pea flowers, whoever 1 give them to will shrivel up!"
And the other said, " And when I pluck some peas, whoever 1 give them to will die!" The lad lingered a little and plucked some pea flowers. They both came running to the bee hive and said, "We’ve got enough peas, we’ll also have enough time to sever the moon tonight."
They rode to the moon and severed it. While riding, one of them said, "What’s wrong here? There’s a man in here!"
The other said, "No, there’s no man here."
They rode home and dropped the bee hive close to the house.  The lad went to church on Three Kings’ Day. Since he was carrying the pea flower, he could see that half of the congregation were witches. He strode furtively up to the priest and tucked the flower under his vestment. The priest came back from the pulpit since he couldn’t deliver the sermon. He said to the other priests, "I’m not going to give a sermon today because there’s something wrong in the church."
Then the lad showed the priest the pea flower. The priest asked, "How and where did you get that pea flower?"
The lad told the priest the whole story and told him that the witches had severed the moon. The priest trampled upon that flower with his feet and said, "Don’t tell anyone, or they’ll take your life."
He promised the priest not to talk about it.
Then, when evening came, he went to a party. The people there were talking about having seen the moon cut asunder. And the lad said, "I was there and I’m not telling you about it. Besides, tonight I visited a place where you can pluck green peas!"
After saying these words, he walked out into the open. The maidens rushed up to him and tore him to pieces.

(Recorded in 1910)