there.

In the morning he arose, performed his devotions, and prepared to
set out with his wife to rejoin his soldiers. Then, like a cloud black
as soot with tawny lightning-hair, there appeared a great giant. He
wore a chaplet of human entrails, a cord of human hair, he was
chewing the head of a man, and drinking blood from a skull.

The giant laughed aloud, spit fire in his wrath, and showed his
dreadful fangs. And he scolded the king and said: "Scoundrel! I am
a giant named Flame-face. This tree is my home; even the gods do
not dare to trespass here. But you and your wife have trespassed
and enjoyed yourselves. Now swallow your own impudence, you
rascal! You are lovesick, so I will split open your heart and eat it,
and I will drink your blood."

The king was frightened when he saw that the giant was
invincible, and his wife was trembling, so he said respectfully: "I
trespassed ignorantly. Forgive me. I am your guest, seeking
protection in your hermitage. And I will give you a human
sacrifice, so that you will be satisfied. Be merciful then and forget
your anger."

Then the giant forgot his anger, and thought: "Very well. Why
not?" And he said: "O King, I want a noble, intelligent Brahman
boy seven years old, who shall give himself up of his own accord
for your sake. And when he is killed, his mother must hold his
hands tightly to the ground, and his father must hold his feet, and
you must cut off his head with your own sword. If you do this
within seven days, then I will forgive the insult you have offered