公主和一個鞋匠的故事 A Shoemaker and Princess

A young shoemaker left his village. Along the way, he found some ants, who were very sad because a bear had destroyed their anthill. The shoemaker helped them rebuild it, and the ants offered to return the favor.

一個年輕鞋匠離開他所在的村子。沿途中看到一些螞蟻，螞蟻們很傷心，因爲熊破壞了他們的家。於是這個鞋匠幫助它們重修了蟻丘，螞蟻們說將來會回報他的幫助。

The shoemaker followed his way and found some bees with the same problem as the ants. The young man also helped them, and the bees promised to help him in the future. Further along, the shoemaker learned that the king’s daughter was in the castle of a witch. The young man decided to rescue her. But the witch locked him up in a stinking dunge on with a sack of sand mixed with poppy seeds and told him that if he wasn’t able to separate the two, she would cut off his head at dawn.

鞋匠上路繼續前行，發現一些蜜蜂遭遇到和螞蟻一樣的狀況。於是這個年輕人也幫助了蜜蜂們，蜜蜂承諾將來也會幫助這位年輕人。又走了很遠，鞋匠聽說國王的女兒困在女巫的城堡裏，年輕人決定去營救她。但女巫把他鎖在惡臭的糞土堆旁，還扔給他一麻袋混合在一起的沙子和罌粟種子。告訴他如果不能夠在黎明前把這些區分開來，就要在黎明時砍掉他的腦袋。

The young man thought about his death. But his friends the ants came and helped him pass the test. The witch was astounded. Then she took him to a room where there were thirteen maidens with their faces covered: the shoemaker had to discover which one was the princess. The young man became discouraged but he saw a bee that landed on… the sweetest one, the true princess. When the shoemaker uncovered her face, the witch was changd into a crow. The young people fell in love and lived surrounded by animals and poppies

年輕人想着他要死了。這時他的朋友螞蟻來了，幫助他通過了這個考驗。女巫大吃一驚，接着她把年輕人帶到了一個房間，裏面有蒙着面紗的是三個少女：鞋匠必須從中找出真正的王妃。年輕人有些灰心了，但這時他看到了一隻蜜蜂降落在一個人身上……那人就是真正的王妃。當鞋匠揭開她的面紗，於是女巫變成了一隻烏鴉。年輕人跟公主墜入愛河，動物們和罌粟花都圍繞着他們。