All too soon the three beautiful maids vanished from Mani's sight into the depth of the palatial garden. Only too much she would have liked to continue watching their play and listening to their songs.
Thus happened that she wished the charming fairies were back.

And suddenly the picture changed, as if urged by the still limited forces of her free will: a violent rumble rang through the air from far and made the earth tremble; the trees, shrubs and the grass rose from the ground again and ran about; a furious wind rushed near and began to thrash upon the leaves of the forest.

The trees had a hard time not to fall, and on their flight into uncertainty they had to muster their utmost skill.

Deep within the earth the rocks stirred and with muffled sounds expressed their urge to wander.
The earth rose in many places, yawning crevices opened and huge massive rocks appeared. They began to roam about and to sing a roaring, blustering song.

The magnificent crystal palace had vanished, and suddenly in its place a cleft dragon-fortress rose crudely into the air - as if hewn with one monstrous stroke from a single piece of rock.
The splinters of this stroke could still be seen spread around the fortress, where they formed trembling heaps of boulders that ran about the coarse stone fortress.

The well had dried up; a bubbling morass had taken its place and stifled the whole area with its suffocating breath.
In this chaos of blustering, wandering rocks, of running trees and fleeing grass the three giantesses appeared again; rattling their long teeth and roaring with laughter they shook their tangled, matted hair.
While incessantly turning their spindles and forcing all of nature under their will again, they threw the three giant rocks at each other.

Now they hurled the mountains so far away that Mani could hardly see them anymore; but she was well able to hear the rumble they caused as they hit the ground.
Then the three hags sat down at the morass near Mani and Sol and ate the malodorous food they had brought in their aprons and drank from the foul muddy waters. But at no moment they forgot to give their imperious orders to the elements of nature.