- Do not be surprised, my dear princess, because I know
everything that happens in your heart. I am aware of the spell
that your stepmother cast on your brothers. To turn them
into humans again you will do as I say: you will go out in the
very morning with the moon still up there and you will collect
weeds.With them you will knit twelve costumes will webs,
without talking.
They will talk to you, but you will not answer. And when you have
your costumes,you will put it on the birds and they will
immediately become humans. This is what you have to do.
The princess did as the old lady told her. All night she was
gathering weeds and all day she was knitting without talking. Her
bird brothers ,that at night turned into humans, talked to her