another french fairytale

Ma Mere l’Oye 1697.  Sleeping Beauty

Once upon a time, there were twin princesses named

Laideronnette and Bellotte.  The King and Queen were holding a

celebration feast in honor of their baby girls and invited many

fairies, but forgot to invite the evil fairy Magotine.  She was angry 

that she was not invited and came to cast spells on the

princesses.  She cursed Laideronnette first and made her
 the ugliest girl in the world.  Then she went towards Bellotte,
but the other fairies were able to stop her from cursing her as well.
As the years went by, Laideronnette became even uglier, so much that

she wished to live away from her family in the Tower of the

castle so they would not have to look at her.  She became very

lonely in the tower by herself, so she decided one day to go

outside where she meets a Green Serpent.  She is afraid of the

Serpent and goes out to sea to escape him, but her boat was no

match for the seas and she almost drowned.  The Serpent tried

to help her but she would not accept it.  After the sea storm,

Laideronnette awakens in a far away kingdom where she be- 

comes the ruler of the Pagodas.  Over the years in her new

kingdom, Laideronnette begins speaking with the king of the

Pagodas, but only at night because he does not want to be seen

by her.  She falls in love with the king and asks to see him.

The king refuses, but Laideronnette looks at him anyway to

find that she has fallen in love with the Green Serpent that she

is so afraid of.  The king was cursed to be a serpent by Ma- 

gotine, the same fairy who cursed Laideronnette.  At first she

could not believe that she loved the serpent and becomes afraid

again and asks not to speak to him.  After a while, Laideron- 

nette realizes that she misses speaking with the King and does

not care that he is a serpent.   As the Green Serpent and ugly

Laideronnette are married, the spells by Magotine are broken

and both return to their original beautiful forms.  Love is

stronger than the evil Magotine.

 

The Fairies. Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas

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Once upon a time, there was a young apprentice who worked for an

old sorcerer.  The apprentice really wanted to learn magic like the

sorcerer, but was usually given jobs such as fetching the water and

cleaning chores.  When left alone to fetch water one day, the appren- 

tice decided to try using some magic.  He enchanted the broomstick to

fetch the water from the well, but after the basin was filled with water

he did not know how to stop the broomstick!  It kept marching back

and forth collecting water from the well and pouring water into an

overflowing basin!  In a panic, the apprentice found an ax and

chopped the broom in pieces in order to stop the flooding.  However,

the spell did not leave the broom, and soon the pieces of broom were

marching with pails of water flooding the sorcerer’s workshop.  Just

as the apprentice seems to have lost hope, the sorcerer returns and

angrily breaks the spell the apprentice had put on the broomstick.  The

sorcerer is able to clean up the mess but not without giving a stern

look at his apprentice who learned that he needs more time fetching

water before he can use magic ,

Allons-y.

 Let's make magic.

 Today. Tonight.

Let's make magic - 

ensemble. 

ensemble. magie. 

étincelles. et étoiles. lune. 

 vent. et magie. ensemble. moi et vous.

par nouvelle année. toute l'année.

 tous les jours.