"If you have not guessed my name by month's end, then you shall be mine!" In this classic English folktale, the heroine eats too many pies, which leads to a misunderstanding and her marriage to a King who only wants her for her skills as a spinster! Desperate to save her life, she makes a deal with a diminutive, magical creature. Can she guess the name of her helper in time? Or will he succeed in claiming her as his own? The sequel, The Gipsy Woman , is set a year later and finds the Queen once more charged with the task of spinning five skeins, daily, for a month. Help arrives in the form of a gipsy woman but can she be trusted? This book contains two versions of each tale: one in modern-day English, and the other, as told originally, in the dialect of East Anglia. [Folklore Type: ATU-500 (The Name of the Helper) & ATU-501 (The Three Spinners)]
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