‘The fairies had taught the princess how to use the spindle and the princess was adept at it. The fairies also made sure that the princess had enough flax for spindling.
As soon as the princess saw him, the prince smiled at her and asked her to come out of the castle. The princess wanted to escape the castle and she wondered how she could do that.
Using the flax that the fairies provided her, the princess made a ladder to get out of the window of the castle.
The princess was about to escape the castle and reach the prince downstairs, when a huge dragon came out of nowhere and swallowed the prince up whole.
The princess was shocked.
The fairies caught the princess who had tried to escape and decided to punish her by turning her into a White Cat.
The fairies also told the princess about her past and turned all the courtiers and other men of the princess’s father’s court into cats to stay with the White Cat. The servants of the princess’s castle in her original kingdom were made invisible with only their hands visible to do all the work.
The fairies however gave a way out for the princess. They told the princess that if a lookalike of the prince whom she had come before came and fell in love with her, she and all the others could escape this curse.’
“You have saved me today, prince.” The former White Cat told the prince with shining eyes.
The prince who already loved the White Cat loved the beautiful princess even more and they went to the third prince’s kingdom.
Adapted from Andrew Lang’s Fairy Tales
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