THE MOUSE PRINCESS
A daughter was born to the king and a great feast was
prepared for the baptism. Unfortunately, through a terrible oversight, the
witch was not invited. To avenge herself for this insult, the witch put an evil
spell on the baby girl and turned her into a mouse, “She will only become herself again on the
day my sister laughs!”
All the clowns and comedians in the kingdom were called, but
they did not succeed in getting even a smile from the sister of the witch. The
king had no alternative in the end but to banish all cats from his kingdom so
that the royal mouse would not be eaten.
One day, a prince in the next kingdom held a ball at his
castle. The other three daughters of the king all attended, dressed
magnificently, of course. The little mouse, on the other hand, was left at home
as usual, but she decided to go to the ball.
She jumped on the back of a cockerel, and tied
some red ribbon through its beak as reins, and set off. When she got to the
bail, the sight of the ribboned cockerel, with a white mouse on its beak, was
so comical, that the witch’s sister at last burst out laughing. Then, the
little white mouse was changed back into a young lady, so beautiful that the
prince fell in love with her at once, and asked for her hand in marriage.
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