The princes' still human sister runs away, finding her brothers in a hunter's hut. She sews six magical white shirts, goes to the hidden castle, and tosses the shirts over the boys, transforming them into swans. The new queen, who has learned witchcraft from her mother, finds out about her stepchildren and decides to get rid of them. He has six sons and a daughter from his first marriage, however, and fears that the children will be abused by his new wife so, he sends them away to a hidden castle and visits them in secret. The King suspects the mysterious maiden to be wicked, but agrees to marry her.
Synopsis Ī King gets lost in a forest, and an old witch helps him, on the condition that he marry her beautiful daughter.
Their source is Wilhelm Grimm's friend and later wife Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild (1795–1867). The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812, and substantially rewritten for the second edition in 1819. Scholars and folktale catalogues report variants of the tale type across Europe, the Middle East, and even India and Japan, although the number of brothers and their animal form may vary between tales. Andrew Lang included a variant of the tale in The Yellow Fairy Book. Other tales of this type include The Seven Ravens, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, and The Twelve Brothers. It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found throughout Europe. " The Six Swans" (German: Die sechs Schwäne) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 49).
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