The Six Swans - dreamcast
Hamlette is hosting a "We Love Fairytales Week" over at her blog - go and take a look and participate if you're not already! I mentioned in my last post that I love the Six Swans fairytale. Before we get down to business, I'm just going to say about the name of it: it's either the Six Swans or the Seven Swans, depending on the version. My book and Wikipedia (!) says six, but there are versions with seven. Anyway, I thought that I'd publish my dream cast of this, if it were made into a film. A synopsis: a king marries a wicked woman, from whom he hides his six sons and one daughter. The stepmother finds them and turns the sons into swans. The daughter, who was hiding, discovers that the only way to lift the spell is to sew a shirt for each brother out of nettles, and remain silent for the six years this will take her. During those six years, she meets and marries the king of a neighbouring country; but, when her three children are born and disappear (they hav...
