The Two Step-Sisters
by Sir George Webbe DasentGenre: Folktale
Setting: Fantasy
Format of Original Source: Short Story
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Candidate for Adaptation? Not Reviewed
EXCERPT:
Once on a time there was a couple, and each of them had a daughter by a former marriage. The woman’s daughter was dull and lazy, and could never turn her hand to anything, and the man’s daughter was brisk and ready; but somehow or other she could never do anything to her stepmother’s liking, and both the woman and her daughter would have been glad to be rid of her.
So it fell one day the two girls were to go out and spin by the side of the well, and the woman’s daughter had flax to spin, but the man’s daughter got nothing to spin but bristles.
‘I don’t know how it is’, said the woman’s daughter, ‘you’re always so quick and sharp, but still I’m not afraid to spin a match with you.’
Well, they agreed that she whose thread first snapped, should go down the well. So they span away
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