Project DONNA DI FANTASIA - Digital Art by Tina Cassati
How transformed the daughter of an emperor in a lamb
[Serbia Vuk Stephanovic Karadzic: folk tales of the Serbs]
There once was an emperor, who had a wife whom he loved above all things. Their marriage had sprung an only daughter, as they grew up to marry, as ill the Empress, and feeling that she would no longer arise, and let the Emperor, her husband to call, and said with tears: "Even approaching left off the last hour of my existence, and before the cock crows the third time, I'll live. I know that you will want to marry after my death to you again, and if it's just your luck, then it is to you by God and forgiven sinner! But in this world and the hear and follow what I tell you now want. Take this ring, and if you find a girl to woo you'd like, it wed thee not, unless it has the ring on the index finger of right hand fits exactly, and three times I conjure up in heaven and earth, only that take girls to my place for a wife, the fit of the ring very well, you follow it not, take everything what you work and take what you fail, and what you ask God you will not be granted without a trace and without heirs shall you go from the earth. "The Emperor promised and swore her to marry any girl that the ring would not be right, and if he could find no such to remain unmarried. Answered him the Empress, "You'll already find one, just break the oath is not, otherwise you will come to harm, not only break the oath," and with these words she died.
sent after the death of his wife of Emperor messengers through the city all the girls try to leave the ring if he did not exactly fit one, and when he is right in the city was no girl, he sent messengers through the vast white world to look, whether she would find one somewhere, but in vain! Because after a long time the servant returned home and told the emperor, they could see the world not a girl, not what the ring would have been either too large or too small. The Emperor was in great embarrassment, what should he do now: he would have liked married again, and found a girl, the oath he would have liked broken, but he did not dare, for fear that the curse will meet him then, and such thoughts tortured, he angrily threw the ring from one day, and what happened? The ring bounced off the floor and dropped his own daughter in her lap. This, the beautiful golden ring sight, took him and lit him on the index finger of right hand and the hand of her father sufficiently, she said. "Look Daddy, as he is to me beautiful," And when the emperor saw this, disappeared from his surprise, the sense that it is a half day not many can come to him until his daughter jumped on him, embraced him with her arms, and cry in their sorrow too heavy for him began, as only he awoke from unconsciousness, and said to her daughter, "You my wife shall and at the place of your deceased mother Empress to be because it has determined God. The daughter wondered whether such a speech, and thought at first that her father crazy and his mind was robbed, having, however, hold out against this suggestion had , and finally saw no way out left, what are they began to escape the marriage with her father to prevent a race to the other of which literally tell? She decides to kill himself, and it does well by his father's dagger (knife) and took him through the heart encounters. When his father saw this, he sent a sorceress, and they told him: "Here you have a flute, take on so that the head of your daughter and blow out from the first ray of sunshine to the late dusk, they will come back to life." This, that the emperor, and he had scarcely begun to blow in addition to the dead daughter as she already straightened. Then he hugged her, and ordered to prepare all that was necessary to the wedding, the next day. But when the daughter heard this, they took his father's sword, beat his order from the left hand, but she had the right burn in the fire. The next morning when the servants were preparing for the wedding all because one of them went back to the Emperor and told him he had seen his daughter without hands. The Emperor hurried away after he is satisfied he hurriedly sent back to the sorceress, who gave him an herb, and when he had smeared so that the daughter's arm stumps, as it grew back completely after such hands as they had formerly . Then she let the father watch over strict, so that she could not try again to take his own life. And when she could do nothing to harm, and walked back and forth through the apartments, she saw in a corner of the house a staff that was of pure gold, written on what was in bloody letters. "Touch me not" surprised and not knowing what this might mean well, she took the baton in hand, but at the moment as she let it slip through your hands, they turned in a lamb bleating ran through the lock. The frightened and astonished servants hastened to report to him the emperor, and when he had seen it with my own eyes, he left as quickly as possible to come back the enchantress, but admitted that they now knew no means to help the girl, he would ask other sorceresses. The emperor then went even to many knowledgeable women of the spell, but each told him that they do not able to the girl its earlier form had to give back, and so for the Emperor unverheirathet.Das lamb has always remained with him and jumped up and bleated at him, and he fed and nursed it like his child, and when the day The Emperor passed away, also died in the lamb.
Digital Art by Tina Cassati 
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