"If you are brave, you can save your brothers from the Queen's spell."
The main character is Eliza. She is princess and she had 11 brothers. Her mother had died when she was born. She was living happily together with her father and her brothers. Then her father remarried a woman. But she is witch. She changed the brothers into the swan by spell, and she expelled them from the castle. Eliza expelled from the castle too.
When she was sixteen, she came back the castle. The Queen was jealous of her. So the Queen made her ugly by spell. Eliza felt sad, and she went to the lake. Then, swans came to the lake. The swans were her elder brothers. Eliza made the shirt from nettle, in order to solve spell.
Next day, Eliza went to the forest to pick up the nettle. The King went to the forest, in order to hunt. He saw Eliza there. The King took Eliza to his palace. He thought that he wanted to marry with Eliza.
Eliza went to pick up the nettle in evening. Then, the Archbishop looked at her. And he considered that she is a witch. He arrested her.
Eliza went into the prison. Suddenly, open the door. The jailer came, and he gave the nettle shirts.
Eliza began to make the shirts.
She went to outside with the guards. Then, the swans were flying. The swans landed there. Eliza threw the shirts at them. Then, the swans returned to human's figure. The spell was broken.
And she was released. Eliza also married with the King, and they lived a happy life.
Reference
Hans Christian Andersen: (2005). The swan princess. London, England: Usborne Publishing Ltd.
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