What a commotion there was. Anyone who told a lie, even the smallest lie, instantly became the truth. The baker regularly lied to passing beggars and answered them with the same thing every day, “The bread is not baked yet.”
That morning, the bread that was in the oven became raw dough and never baked.
The milkman lied to the beggars every day by saying, “my goats are sick and aren’t giving milk.”
When he said those words the next morning, his goats fell ill and stopped giving milk.
Rumors of the old witch's curse spread throughout the kingdom, and people began to fear telling lies, lest the curse befall them too.
A few days passed like this, and a noble prince from afar arrived in the kingdom. Behind him walked a crowd of servants with all kinds of riches.
The king and queen, seeing all these treasures, greeted the guest with hugs, as if he were an acquaintance whom they had not seen for a long time.
“I have come for the hand of the princess,” said the prince.
But, as rich as the prince was, he was also the ugliest.
I will not give my daughter away to anyone, least of all such an ugly creature as this! The king thought, unable to stop looking at the prince’s toad-like appearance. His large eyes, puffy cheeks and many face warts turned the king’s stomach.
Suddenly, the king broke out into loud cries of sorrow and fell onto the young prince’s shoulder. “Oh, such a tragedy! My dear prince, you have traveled long and come from so far, but in vain. What a tragedy! It’s truly horrible! Our dear daughter was struck down by a terrible bird disease!”
No sooner had he spoken the words than the princess, who was entering the throne room at that time, began to change.
The princess gave a cry of surprise that soon turned into terror. Her mouth grew longer, her skin became feathered, and her voice simply disappeared.
Her maids jumped away from the bird-like creature and ran off screaming.
The princess opened her mouth ready to beg them to come back. Quack, quack!”
She couldn’t speak anymore. Whenever she tried to speak, all that came out was the terrible quacking sound.
The prince was so frightened when he saw the princess that he forgot wealth and servants and ran back to his kingdom.
“The people say a terrible witch cursed our kingdom.” The servants whispered to the king, telling him of all the guards had told them. “Every lie that is spoken comes true.”
“What is this I’m hearing about our kingdom being cursed?” The king asked the guards one day. “Who is spreading such horrible lies? Tell me now, or I will have your heads!”
When the guards told the king about the witch, the king and queen were terrified!
“How are you going to find a husband with our daughter looking like this?” said the queen.
For the first time, the king did not know what to do, for he only knew how to lie.
The king was so ashamed of his daughter that he locked her in her chambers, on the highest tower, where no one but her servants could see her.
“There, problem solved,” the king said to the queen, who shook her head sadly.
Meanwhile, in a small house not far from the False Kingdom, there lived a woodcutter with his only son. He had been to the false kingdom once before and had fallen in love with the young princess, but he was poor and had nothing to offer the king for the princess's hand in marriage.
One day when his father sent him to the forest to chop wood, the young man heard a cry for help.
“Somebody help me!”
The woodchopper’s son had a good heart and immediately came to help. What did he see?
In the branches of a tree, sat a large black spider, spinning around a small, ugly man, who was caught in its web. He was tiny, with a long sharp nose and wore a tunic made of leaves , which barely covered his small green shoes .
The little man had tangled his wings in the web and the more he tried to get out, the more it got tangled.
suffer from the past, to long for the future, but to forget the present.
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