Little brother + little sister
Mother died, stepmother beats them
left home
rained
came to forest
hungry
slept in hollow tree
wicked stepmother was a Witch
had bewitched all the brooks in the forest.
each brook said "Who drinks of me, a [wild animal] be!"
finally so thirsty, brother drank. Became a roe deer.
Girl looked after deer,
Found empty house in forest.
Sister gathered roots and berries and nuts each day
The king sees them
King had huntBrother wanted to watch
“When I hear the bugle-horns I feel as if I must jump out of my skin.”
They injured his foot, and followed him back
The girl had grown up and was beautiful,
The king followed and wanted to marry her.
The roe deer lived with them.
The witch heard
Her daughter was jealous
The witch's revenge
The queen (the sister) had a baby boy.That day, the witch took the form of a servant, ran a bath for the exhausted queen,
the heat suffocated the queen
The witch made her daughter look like the queen
Only had one eye, so lay on one side
The true queen came back (as a ghost) but nobody except the nurse saw her
She watched over her child and over the deer,
she could only come back one more time
The nurse told the king
The king waited, realised this was his true wife
She came back to life
The witch's daughter was judged: torn to pieces by wild beasts in the forest
The Witch was burnt.
The deer then changed back to be human again.
Ant they lived happily ever after.
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