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The Enchanted Doe
In the Kingdom of Longtrellis, the King and Queen cannot conceive a child. A
necromancer suggests that if the Queen eats a sea dragon's heart cooked by
a virgin, she will become with child but this will cost a life. The King
slays the sea dragon but dies from his wounds. The Queen eats the heart and
the next day bears a son, Elias, with hair as white as the dragon. The cook
also gives birth to a boy, Jonah. The boys are identical and inseparable
friends. This so vexes the Queen that she attempts to murder Jonah, though
he manages to escape. Jonah leaves the kingdom, plunging a knife into a tree
root and telling Elias that as long as the root spouts clear water, he is
alive and well. One day the water is clouded with blood. Elias leaves to
find Jonah. The Queen has her subjects search for Elias to no avail. The
necromancer blames the Queen and says the youths are truly inseparable, and
that her violent desire can be achieved only through violence. Elias finds
Jonah wounded in a cave. They are threatened by a monster, which wounds
Jonah but hesitates to attack Elias, who kills the monster and returns Jonah
to his wife. In the cave, the monster's corpse dissolves into that of the
Queen.
The Flayed Old Lady
The lustful King of Strongcliff is intrigued by the sound of a woman's
heavenly singing. He courts her outside her home, unaware that she is one of
two elderly sisters, Imma and Dora. Dora agrees to spend the night with him
as long as it is in complete darkness. He is horrified when he sees her
appearance the next morning and has his guards throw her out of the window.
She survives, entangled in the branches of a tree. A witch rescues her and
nurses her from her breast. Dora awakens as a young, beautiful maiden. The
King comes upon her while hunting and decides to make her his Queen. Dora
invites Imma to the wedding and promises to take care of her, but says she
cannot stay in the castle. Imma refuses to leave, asking for the secret to
her sister's youth and beauty. In annoyance, Dora says she got herself
flayed. Finally thrown out after violating the royal couple's privacy in
their bedroom, Imma finds someone willing to flay her, leaving her bloody
and disfigured.
The Flea
The King of Highhills becomes fascinated by a flea, which he hides in his
room as a pet. It grows gigantic under his care. When it dies, the King
decides to skin it. His daughter Violet tells him she wants to be married,
so he offers her as a bride to whoever can guess from what beast the skin
was taken, believing no one can do so. However, an ogre correctly identifies
the hide by smell. Violet is horrified but her father says he cannot go
back on his word. Violet goes through with the marriage but says her father
never loved her. The ogre takes Violet to his cave, where she is raped and
kept prisoner. A family of acrobats helps her to escape, but the ogre gives
chase and kills the entire family. He is mollified by Violet, who then slits
his throat. Violet returns to the castle, where the King has grown ill and
reveals she has the head of the ogre, the husband he "chose" for her. The
King falls to his knees crying and the courtiers follow suit. Violet, too,
begins to cry.
Elias, Dora and the King of Strongcliff are among the guests for Violet's
coronation as Queen. There, Elias nods to her and the King of Strongcliff.
As Violet's father walks her to the throne the crowd looks skyward, where an
entertainer is walking a tightrope of fire. We see Dora's beauty begin to
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The Flea (fairy tale)
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The Flea is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in
his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.[1]
Synopsis
A king raised a flea until it was the size of a sheep. Then he had it
skinned and promised his daughter in marriage to whoever could guess what
the skin came from. An ogre guessed, and the king had to marry his daughter
to him. The ogre took her to his house, decorated by the bones of men he had
eaten, and brought her back men's bodies to eat. She wept by the window and
told an old woman her plight. The old woman told her that she had seven
marvelous half-giant’s sons who could help her. The next day, the old woman
and her sons came and carried her off.
The oldest son heard the ogre whenever he approached, and each of his
brothers put up an obstacle: one washed his hands and produced a sea of
soapsuds, one transformed a piece of iron into a field of razors, one turned
a little stick into a forest, and one turned a little bit of water into a
river. The last one turned a pebble into a tower where they could take
refuge, but they were trapped there, and the ogre came with a ladder. The
youngest son shot the ogre's eye out and cut his head off.
The sons brought her to her father and were richly rewarded. The princess
was married to a suitable prince and lived happily ever after. |
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