The Seven Ravens

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

The Seven Ravens

"....A peasant had seven sons and no daughter until finally a daughter was born, but she was sickly. He sent his sons to fetch water for her -- in the German version, to be baptized; in the Greek, from a healing spring -- but in their haste, they dropped the jug in the well. When they did not return, their father thought they had left it off to play and cursed them. Unexpectedly, it turned them into ravens..."

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Uploaded on April 24, 2009
Taken on April 24, 2009