Reading (Notes) Frenzy: The Three Spinners



This story comes from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane (1886).



There was a girl who was was lazy and wouldn't do any spinning. Her mom was mad and beat her. The queen happen to pass at that moment and asked the mother why she was beating her daughter. The mother claimed she couldn't get her to stop spinning because she was ashamed of her laziness. She claims she can't afford her daughters spinning habit. The queen loves the sound of spinning and request to take the daughter to the castle. The queen took her with her to the castle. There the daughter was given three rooms of the finest flax and told when she was finished she would get the prince as her fiancé. She was terrified because she couldn't do that with all the time in the world, there was just too much flax. For three days she did nothing but weep. The queen noticed and said that she needed to get over her 'homesickness' and spin. She looked out the window and saw three women posing. She got the to help in exchange for a invite to her wedding and places of honor. They come in a help her. The queen would come in and check on her, and the women would hide. When the flax was all yarn, the wedding was arranged. The girl did not forget and asks for her supposed cousins to come and sit with her. They are invited and when they show up, the finance mocks them for their ugliness. He asks about their specific features and they reply that they are from an element of spinning. The prince then decrees that his bride will never again touch a spinning wheel, and she never had to spin again.

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