The Wild Swans (2)

The Wild Swans (2)

The King's first wife was already died, leaving seven children :six boys and one girl, whom he loved more than anything in the world.

Afraid their new stepmother might do them some harm, he took children to live in a lonely castle in the middle of a forest.

The road to the castle was hidden so the King used a magic ball of tarn to find it. When he threw it down, it unrolled itself and showed him the way.

The King went so often to see his children that the new Queen grew angry. She wanted to know why he went out alone into the wood so often.

She bribed his servants and they told her about the secret castle and the magic ball of yarn.

The Queen did not rest until she had found the yarn.
Then she made some white silk shirts with a charm sewn in each of them.

When the King was out hunting, she took the shirts into the wood and used the ball of yarn to show her the way to the castle.

The children saw someone in the distance but thought it was their father and ran to meet him.

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