(Day 6 of a week of retelling traditional folktales.)
A childless queen was told by a wise old lady that two flowers would grow from underneath her bed.
“Eat one and you shall have a child.”
The queen ate both and bore twin girls. One girl was very beautiful; the other was ugly as sin and rode a goat while waving a wooden spoon. A witch came along and cut off the head of the beautiful twin and replaced the head with a calf’s head. The twins searched the world for the beautiful head and they eventually found it. The girl put her beautiful head back on and the twins escaped to a foreign kingdom.
The king of the kingdom fell in love with the beautiful twin. But the ugly twin would not consent to the marriage unless she herself married the king’s son. The king consented. On the way to the wedding the king’s son was sullen.
The ugly twin said, “Why are you so sullen? Why don’t you ask why I ride a goat?” He asked and the goat turned into a magnificent horse.
The ugly twin asked, “Why don’t you ask why I wave a wooden spoon?” He asked and the wooden spoon turned into a silver wand.
The ugly twin asked, “Why don’t you ask why I am so ugly?” He asked and she was ugly no more. In fact she was the most beautiful princess in the whole, whole world.
(Footnote: Awww).
Weave a Web 
Man! Now I know the pressure girls are under to have good looks! Imagine living in a culture of constant stories about beauty and sexiness and tit size and thinness … ha ha! Still, I’d rather be a girl with my assets (looks + brains) than a guy with them. If I was a girl with my assets life would be so EAAAAAASY and the world would be my pickings. Oh well. At least I don’t have to menstruate. There is that.
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Ha! Remember that menopause in men is largely ignored, and that anger and grunting caused by hormonal imbalance in boys is ignored in favour of various things happening to girls!
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I love fairy stories. And wish I could just wave a silver spoon.
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I don’t think you waved hard enough. Try again.
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Ask me why I’m not 20 years old!
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Nah! So what’s it like to be 90?
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LOL, what’s it like to be ugly, ride a goat, and wave a wooden spoon?
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Ha! Ha! You win!!!!
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Wow. What an amazing story. I have no idea what it means but it was an amazing story.
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LOL – And to think it’s a true story.
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Who’d’a thunk it?
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Statistically speaking girls who are questioned about their ugly looks are more likely to turn into Ninja warriors than beautiful princesses. I hope the prince has an EMT team on speed dial!
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There’s no need to be so unromantic. The EMT team were beautiful too, and the Ninja Warriors turned into Beauty Queens. Sigh…
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You’re right. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and no beholder is beyond the reach of a strong marketing campaign.
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Ha! Absolutely. However, no one has ever tried to market me. No one has even tried to abuse me (and I went to boarding school). What’s wrong with me? Am I that ugly? I feel so much a victim.
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I am surprised I missed this interesting tale. I enjoyed the delightful spins and of course the end.
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Once again your Romantic tendencies come to the fore.
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But she didn’t really answer the questions. Why did she disguise her wand as a spoon and her horse as a goat? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk? Same answer.
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Oh, now it makes sense!
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