Atondido Stories
great ax to kill the princess.
In the meantime the prince had pulled the feather which his
third brother-in-law had given him and cried, “Help me, O King
of the Pigeons.” Immediately a great flock of pigeons appeared
attacking the pigeon and tearing it to pieces.
Just as the beast had caught the princess and was about to
slay her, the prince took the egg from within the slain pigeon.
He at once broke the egg and blew out the candle. At that mo-
ment the beast fell dead, and the princess escaped unharmed.
The prince carried the giant princess home to her father’s
kingdom and the king made a great festa which lasted many
days. There was rejoicing throughout the whole kingdom be-
cause of the death of the beast and because of the safety of the
lovely princess. The prince was praised throughout the kingdom
and there is talk of him even unto this very day.
The prince had cut off the head of the great beast and the tip
of its tail. The head he had given to the king, but the tip of the
tail he kept for himself. The beast was so enormous that just the
tip of its tail made a great ring large enough to encircle the
prince’s body. One day, just in fun, he twined the tip of the
beast’s tail around his waist. He immediately grew and grew un-
til he became a giant himself, almost as tall as the king of the
land of giants, and several leagues taller than the princess. It is
not strange that a man who became a giant among giants should
be famous even until now.
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