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Synopsis. A young and handsome king, whenever he could leave his duties, liked to wander the world. He passed by the castle of an emperor and heard his three daughters speak. They all wished they could marry him; the oldest said that she would keep his house clean; the second, that she would make his house like two golden apples; the third ...
Ancilotto, King of Provino, takes to wife the daughter of a baker, and has by her three children. These, after much persecution at the hands of the king’s mother, are made known to their father through the strange working of certain water, and of an apple, and of a bird. I HAVE always understood, lovesome and gracious ladies, that man is the ...
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Ancilotto, King of Provino; B. Bella Venezia; The Story of Bensurdatu; Biancabella and the Snake; C. The Canary Prince; Cannetella; Catherine and Her Destiny ...
Nov 14, 2023 · A king lost his wife and fell in love with his sister, Penta. He implored her to marry him. When she refused and he continued to implore her, she asked what attracted him, and he praised her beauty, but most highly, her hands. She tricked a slave into cutting off her hands, and the king had her put in a chest and thrown into the sea.
The Boys with the Golden Stars. A String of Pearls Twined with Golden Flowers. Two Pieces of Nuts ( Hungarian: Két szem magyaró) is a Hungarian folktale collected by István Banó in Baranya. In it, a woman promises to give birth to wonderful children who are subsequently taken from her by jealous associates or relatives.
The king's seventh queen becomes pregnant, and the other six queens, feeling threatened, take the boy as soon as he is born and cast him in the river in a raft. The same destiny befalls the seventh queen's next children (a boy and a girl). The three children are saved and raised by a poor childless couple.
