 Following the sounds down to the basement of the castle, Kasperl discovers a toad in a pond, which speaks human language.It turns out that it is the fairy Amaryllis, who has been transformed into a toad by Zwackelmann; she asks Kasperl to get a certain plant, the fairy herb, which can be found only at a certain place during moonlight.Furthermore, she tells him how to break the curse and to escape from the castle by leaving a part of his personal clothes in the castle.