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The three golden hairs
Title CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALES: 15 Illustrated Czech, Slovak and Moravian tales
Collector Parker Fillmore
Editor Abela Publishing Ltd, 2014
Pages 236
About the collector:
U.S. author Parker Hoysted Fillmore(1878–1944), wrote books of folktales and fairy tales for children drawn from the folklore of Central and Northern Europe. One of his best-known works is Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, a collection of 15 classic Czech, Slovak, and Moravian folktales.
Parker Hoysted Fillmore was born on Sept. 21, 1878, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Summary
There was once a king who loved very much hunting. One day he followed a stag a great distance into the forest. He went on and on and untill he lost his way. Night fell and the king by happy chance came upon a clearing in which a charcoal-burner had a cottage. The king asked the charcoal-burner to lead him from the forest and offered to pay him handsomely.
The man asked that his whife has to born in that night , but he will guide him in the morning. Untill then he should rest himself. The king was agree and climbed into the garret and lay down on the floor. Shortly afterwards a son was born into the charcoal-burner. At midnigt the king saw a stange light coming from the room were the boy was born, there was tree women who were horrid, they have foretold the child's future, one of them said that the boy will get married with king’s daughter. The baby's mother died that night, so the king promises to the father that he will help him with the child. So when get’s home, he send a servant to take the child and let him on the water to die, because he didn’t want him as houseband for his daughter. The servant goes and he let the child into a cart in the middle of a river. A fisherman find’s the little child and he grows him like his own child. One day the king meet the fisherman and his son and he realise that Plavachek is the boy that he ordered to be killed. He send him to the castle with a letter for the queen, in the letter asked her to kill him immediately. In his way to the castle, the young man meets an old women(his godmather), who change his letter and she write’s in it that this young should immediately married whith the princess .
A few days after the wedding the king returned and when he discovered what had happened he flew into a violent rage at the queen.
The king want’s to find a good way to get rid of an undesirable son-in-law. So he asked him to bring three golden hairs from grandfather knowitall. After many days he finally arrives to his godmather, and learns that grandfather knowitall is his son, she help him to get those three golden hairs and the answer at three questions, he rides home, and the king was verry surprised to see him alive and bringing those golden hairs. Plavachek tells the king that he saw a fountain whose water makes you young and a tree of the apples of youth . The king lost no time in starting out in quest of the apples of youth and the water of life, and he never came back. So Plavachek, the charcoal-burner's son, became the king's son-in-law since the old Fate foretold.
Position in the Aarne-Thomson-Uther Index
Tales of magic- supernaturals helpers- Godmather
Similarities
Plavachek is helped by Godmather just like Cinderela
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