Our common tales ebook | Page 56

Her brothers,the birds, heard the news and flew to the window of her prison room and cried desperately. When she finished the last costume however, she throwed each one of twelve costumes on each bird and they instantly became humans. So they took their sister to the palace to tell her story.They all cried from the tortures the beautiful princess had to suffer. They welcomed the twelve brothers to the palace and they were all fine, especially the prince, and prepations for the wedding were running. The king invited to the wedding all the kings from the nearby kingdoms,he also invited and father of the princess, who in the meantime returned from the war and was sad,having lost his thirteen children. His wife,the witch, when he got back from the