HELP ME OUT
ok, All I remember is when I was little, there was this Jim Henson show and there would be stories. One i REALLY remember is about some girl and being led somewhere by a ball of string. This make sense to anyone?
shareThats the Three Ravens.
Spoilers!
There were 3 princes and a princess, their mother died and their father remarried a witch (she enchanted him). She wanted them out of the way, so she kept trying to kill them through magic. The king got suspicious and so took his children to a secret house, that you could only find through a magic ball of string that led the way. The queen stole the string, found the house and gave the boys enchanted shirts to wear, that turned them into ravens (hence the title). The princess ran away but the ravens found her and told her that if she stayed silent for 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days the spell would be broken.
She lived in the woods but one day a prince found her, she didnt talk to him but they fell in love and got married. The prince's stepmother turned out to be the witch (the other king died). The princess had a baby, but woke up one morning to find it had been replaced by a doll. The witch planted suspicions in the prince's head. She had a second son, which was replaced by a pig. More suspicion. She had a third son, which was replaced by ash. The witch planted enough suspicion in the prince's head to have the princess burnt at the stake as a witch. This just happened to be 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days after her vow of silence. The witch went to set fire to the stake but the ravens turned up, and she ended up setting fire to herself. The princess spoke, and the ravens turned back into her brothers. The 3 sons were returned to her (the ravens had looked after them). She had spoken a little too soon so one brother still had a wing, but noone really cared.
And they all lived happily ever after. :p
That's my favourite episiode!
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men!
THANK YOU!
This was one of those things that deeply bothered me as a child; I had this weird terror with dolls. I could remember only vaguely something of Jim Henson's that had a white lion, and something that upset me about crows and a doll and a pig in someone's bed and a missing baby, and a large hill with a dead giant under it (I became terrified of the large hill in our backyard). Today I just thought that imdb could help me find this stuff, but wow, your post was _perfect_ in helping me sort out the snippets of memories.
Thanks :)
~Nicole
You're welcome! :) I thought I had maybe gone into too much detail, but if it helped someone then that's good!
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men!