We have come to the moment when the handless maiden is about to be dismembered, her hands chopped off, at the command of the devil, by her father.  

The Handless maiden accepts her fate, and kneels over the chopping block, where her hands are severed from her body, blood everywhere.

Her parents cry in horror, as does she.  The devil comes back to collect the young maiden, finally, and when he does, she begins crying into the stumps where her hands once were, and again, is made clean, and the devil is unable to seize her.

The devil is flung away from her for the third time, and he no longer has any claim to her.  He vanishes forever.