![]() ![]() She finds out that there is a way to make her brothers become human again but it requires her not to talk or laugh for six years. The princess escapes the queen's magic and retains her human form. When the queen finds out about the king's children, she uses witchcraft to change the six princes into swans. Since he does not really trust his new queen, the king does not let her know about the seven children, six sons and a daughter, that he has from a previous marriage. ![]() ![]() The plot of "The Six Swans" is set in motion when a king agrees to marry the daughter of a witch. Two other stories that are variants of the same folktale, " The Twelve Brothers" and " The Seven Ravens" are also included in Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm. Hans Christian Andersen drew on similar Scandinavian folktales to write " The Wild Swans", which was first published in 1838. Similar stories exist in the folklore of North Africa, Greece, Russia and other European countries. It is included in Kinder- und Hausmärchen ( Children's and Household Tales), the 1812 anthology of folktales compiled by the Brothers Grimm, and The Yellow Fairy Book, the 1894 anthology of children's stories compiled by the Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. "The Six Swans" (German: "Die sechs Schwäne") is a German fairy tale. 1991 illustration for "The Six Swans" by Felicitas Kuhn. ![]()
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