Our common tales ebook | Page 48

Dear sir, can I come with you? I am all alone in the world and I am an orphan. - Gladly, my daughter, you may join me. What I am to eat will be your food too. And so the princess lived in the hut of the old man. One day the old man said to her: - Nearby, my daughter, every night a strange thing happens, near the river. Twelve birds descend on earth and when they touch the ground,they turn to humans,oh lord! When the girl heard that,became deeply troubled and thought: "The twelve birds must be t my brothers and that witch,devilsh woman must have put a spell on them".