Three Women Weavers | Fairy tale

Works of the Brothers Grimm

Once upon a time there was a girl who is very lazy and do not ever want to weave cloth, and his mother never could persuade the girl to do what must be done. Finally his mother became very angry and lose patience and start beating his daughter hard. At that moment the Queen who was passing by, stop in front of the house because she heard the girl crying. The queen then entered the house and asked what had happened to her and why her mother beat her daughter as to all those who are on the road can listen to the girl crying.

The girl's mother was embarrassed to admit her daughter's laziness, so she said,

"I can not stop him weave, she always wanted to do it all the time and I was too poor to be able to provide him hemp - for woven materials is sufficient."

Then the Queen replied,

"I am very happy to hear the sound of wheels spinning wheel, and I am happy to listen to them hum, let me bring your daughter to the palace, I have plenty of flax and materials magick, where he can be spun with happy heart."

The girl's mother was very happy to listen to the offer, and the Queen was then taking the girl with him. When they reached the palace, the queen shows three room full of weaving hemp and the best materials available in his kingdom.

"Now you can weave this hemp," he said, "and if you successfully complete it, you're going to marry me with my eldest son; you may be poor but I would not care about it, the fabric that you made from hemp is quite as dowry, "

The girl was frightened inside, because he was not able to weave, even though he lived a hundred years and sat weave every day for her life from morning till night. And when she was alone she began to weep, and sat for three days without touching a loom. On the third day the Queen came, and when he saw none woven finished, he then surprised; but the girl reasoned that he could not begin to weave because she was sad due to separation from home and mother. The reason that makes the Queen to be quiet, but when the Queen will leave, he said, "Tomorrow you must begin work."

When the girl was alone again, he can not do anything to help themselves or do anything that should be done. In his confusion he just come out and stare out the window. At that time he saw three women passing by in front of him, and the first woman to have feet wide and flat, which both have a lip that hung down to her chin, and the third has a thumb that is very wide. They then stopped in front of the window, and tried to ask what the girl wanted. The girl explains what they need, and they promised to help him, and said,

"You have to invite us to your wedding, and are not ashamed of our presence, call us as relatives and cousins, and allowed to sit at the table with you; if you promise to fulfill it, we will solve the woven in a short time. "

"I promise all my heart," said the girl; "Come and start now."

Then three women came in, and they cleared a little space in the first room for them so that they can sit down and put their looms. The first woman pulling out the thread and began to set foot into a lever that turns the wheels loom, the second woman soaks thread, and women who are third twist and flatten with his thumb on the table, slowly rolls of yarn beautiful falling on the floor, and this resulted in a very beautiful weave. The girl hid the three women weavers of the Queen's eyes so that every time the queen visited, the Queen just see him alone with a pile weave very beautiful; and countless compliments he received from the Queen. When the first room was empty, they started to weave in the second room, then to the third room until all flax has been completed in the weaving. Then when the three women weavers it would go, they said to the girl,

"Do not forget what you promised, and everything will be better for you."

When the girl showed the queen the empty rooms, and a large number of woven, Queen immediately arrange her marriage with the eldest son, and the groom and even then very happy to get a prospective wife is very clever and diligent.

"I have three cousins," said the girl, "and because they are very good to me, I will never forget them when I get lucky; Can I invite them to come to the party, and ask them to sit at the table with us? "

Queen and her eldest son who will be a candidate for husband said the same,

"You may be invited to come, there is no reason for us to not invite him here,"

When the banquet began, the three women weavers come without hiding their ugliness, and the girl said,

"My cousin is good, welcome."

"Oh," said the bridegroom, "how can you have relatives who are very ugly?"

Then he met a woman weaver who first and asked him,

"How can you have the legs so wide and flat?"

"I always I set foot on the loom," he said.

When he met the second woman and asked,

"How can you have a lip hanging down to your chin?"

"With licking thread." He said,

And then he asked a third woman,

"How can you have a very large thumb and wide?"

"With a twist and twist yarn," he said.

Then the bridegroom said that since then, the girl who became his wife should be stopped for weaving and never touch the loom again.

And so finally the girl escape from the exhausting work of weaving.

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