Katie+Woodencloak

Norway

KATIE WOODENCL OAK

Once apon a time their was a king who's wife had died. The only person that he had was his daughter who was clever and lovely. Their was never a cleverer or lovelier in all the world. The king sorrowed for many years until he married a widowed queen who had one daughter also. The widows' daughter was very bad and ugly. The stepmother and stepsister were jealous of the kings daughter because she was so lovely, but the stepmother and stepsister would't dare harm the princess while the king was around. One day the king went off to war and the step mother abused and starved the princess. The stepmother made the princess heard cattle one day and the princess cried and sobbed. In the heard there was a great Dunn Bull who let the princess pat him when she was sad. One day the bull asked the princess why she was always so sad and the princess said "nothing" but the bull answered "but i to know why you are so sad, it is your stepmother she is cruel to you, she starves you and beats you" then the bull said " you dont have to starve you can have as many dishes as you please, there is a cloth on my left ear take it, spread it out and you can have as many dishes as you please". When the stepmother found out she tried to make a plan to kill the bull. The king came back home from war and by then the queen came up with a plan, she pretended to be sick and bribed the docter to say the only cure was the flesh of a bull. When the princess found out she told the bull, who said that they should run away. On their journey they came to a copper forest, the bull said to the princess that she musen't touch anything or a troll with 3 heads will come. The princess tried her hardest not to touch anything but the deeper they got into the forest the more thinner it got and by accident she tore off a leaf. When that happened the bull said to keep the leaf no matter what, the they heard a **"AU,AU"** and the troll came and said "who dares to touch my forest" the bull said in return "it is just as much mine as yours" then the troll said" then we will fight", the bull won but was badlywounded so the princess took the horn from the troll with the ointment and the bull became better. The same happened in the silver wood but with a silver leaf and a troll with 6 heads, and the gold wood but with a gold apple and a troll with 9 heads. They came to a castle and the bull gave her a wooden cloak and said to ask for work, as "Katie Woodencloak" but first she must cut off the bulls head,flay him, and hide hime in a rock with the leaves and apple, then knock on the stone whenever she needed anything. She worked in the castle and one day she brought a bucket of water to the prince for his bath,and the prince not wanting water from such a filthy creature grabed the bucket and dumped the water on her. later on she went to the rock and was dressed in a copper dress for church and the prince was there to but not knowing it was katie fell in love with her but be for he could say annything she ran away but he got a hold of one of her gloves. the next day the same thing happened but with a towel, a silver dress, and the prince got a hold of her riding wip. and again the same thing happened but with a comb, gold dress, and her golden shoe. the king had all the women try on the shoe and it fit katie's stepsister, in wich a bird told the prince that the sister cut her foot to make the shoe fit and that it was katie woodencloak's shoe. so the prince married katie.

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