About the
book.
An
original fairy story entirely invented by the author
that tells the tail of a young Prince and his companion
coming back to their homeland after being mysteriously
whisked away and ship wrecked by an evil wizard.
They
are almost home and getting very close to the dead line
when the Prince must take over ruling the kingdom from
his father or lose everything, when they happen on an
old man who is sitting on a rock and weeping. This
ancient tells them how his only daughter, the beautiful
Lucinda has been kidnapped and imprisoned by her evil
uncle and how her father has little or no magic left
to rescue her. All he has are three magic handkerchiefs.
These
he gives to the prince and begs him to rescue his daughter.
The
Prince agrees, exchanging clothes with his companion
and ordering the companion to return to the kingdom
in his place.
The
Prince sets off to find Lucinda. On the way he is confronted by
The Hag whose weapon is speech and the Gundesvorn
a twin headed crawling grub whose weapon is the eyes
in it's right hand head.
Overcoming
these terrors with the aid of two of the handkerchiefs,
the Prince comes at last to the tower where Lucinda
is imprisoned but there is no way up to her until the
prince realises that he can use the last handkerchief
to make a rope for her to climb down.
All
ends as it should with the Prince returning to his own
land with his bride and his companion handing over the
reins of power to him.
Eight
principals and chorus of towns folk etc.
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