Taran and company then escape the castle before the cauldron’s magic destroys it. Instead, the Horned King winds up going into it and dies. The enraged Horned King confronts Taran, and believing him to be responsible, he tries to send Taran into the cauldron for foiling his plans. The army falls lifeless again and the power starts to return to the cauldron. Taran decides to jump into the cauldron to put a stop to its magic, but Gurgi halts him and sacrifices his own life instead, believing Taran has more to lose than he does. The Horned King uses the cauldron’s power to reanimate his dead army, but as he goes outside to watch them march forth into the world, Gurgi sneaks into the castle and finds and unties his friends. Later, while the quartet are sitting around moping and wondering what to do with this cauldron that they can’t use, the Horned King’s forces appear, and while Gurgi is able to hide, the others and the cauldron are taken to the Horned King’s castle. Taran trades them his magic sword for the cauldron, and before the witches disappear, they – knowing of his desire to destroy it – inform him that the cauldron is indestructible only its magic powers can be stopped, and the only way to do that is for someone to climb into it of their own free will, but at the cost of their life. Taran, Eilonwy, Fflewddur, and Gurgi manage to locate the Black Cauldron in the possession of the witches Orddu, Orgoch, and Orwen in the marshes of Morva.
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