This is another fairy tale themed project about heroic girls. I will mention two stories in each post and this is the second part.
The Wild Swans
This is a story by Hans Christian Andersen. It's all about a young woman who rescues her eleven brothers. It begins when a widower king remarries but his new wife is a witch. The king already has twelve children, eleven sons and one daughter named Eliza or in some versions, Elisa. The spiteful witch queen puts a curse on the eleven boys, so they are all turned into swans and sent away. Eliza is then carried away by her brothers out of the queen's evil reach. Soon Eliza encounters a fairy queen, who tells her how to help her brothers remove the curse. Princess Eliza gathers stinging nettles from graveyards to make into shirts but can't speak a word. She's often seen knitting and some believe that she's a witch herself. As they're about to pull her off towards the stake where they want her burned for witchcraft, she has almost finished knitting and her swan brothers appear. She is able to put the shirts over each of them. Not only has she restored their human forms, but the brothers rescue their sister from death. This determined Eliza knitted for so long even while she was being escorted to her execution.
Alice in Wonderland
This is a famous story saga by Lewis Carroll. This is a story about a brave girl who finds herself in a scary and threatening world. Alice encounters weird creatures, a Mad Hatter, talking animals, living inanimate objects, a blood thirsty Queen of Hearts, and much more. There is Alice's furhter adventures in the book's sequel "Through the Looking Glass". She's often associated with the twins Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, of Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, the Red and White queens, and more. Included in the story is a poem about a dragon called Jabberwocky that was slain by a Vorpal Blade. While Alice now today appears to have been the dragon slayer, the original work only gave little reference to it. But besides this, one doesn't have to be a dragon slayer to be a warrior. It doesn't matter if Alice did or didn't kill the Jabberwocky. By the end of her story, Alice became Queen Alice of Wonderland. The trails and adventures Alice went through alone caused her to be one super tough girl.
More to come...
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