9. Interpretations of Fairy Tales
When he was already king, he had to suffer the persecutions of an evil witch who lived in the forest at the edge of his property. The witch wanted him to marry her daughter. But since he had taken his wife from a neighboring enchanted castle, she swore revenge. She turned him into a glass king and her daughter into a bumblebee that gnawed at his stomach. The queen was tormented by the witch herself, who turned into an evil spider and surrounded the queen with a spider web. The maid was turned into a thorn bush, and the horse he had acquired was shot by the evil witch and had the arrow lodged in its body. Now everything turned out well because the enchanted horse was freed and the others were freed as well.
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