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beauty, asks the brother if these stories are true and has them confirmed. The king decides to marry her and sends the brother in a ship to fetch her. The stepmother gives her daughter a mask to cover her hideous face and sends her off on the ship with her stepchildren. While the ship is still sailing, the stepsister pushes Maiden Bright-eye overboard and then pretends to be her for the king, who marries her, but when sees her unmasked, ugly face, he's so enraged that he orders that Maiden Bright-eye's brother must thrown into a pit of snakes for lying to him about his sister's beauty. Fortunately, Maiden Bright-eye survived because she put on the cap the little fellow gave her and it
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Maiden Bright-eye pulls up some heather and a little fellow wearing a red cap pops up from the ground to ask why she is pulling off the roof of his house. After apologizing and explaining her situation, Maiden Bright-eye offers to share her pancakes. The little fellow accepts them, and for the girl's
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