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"Brother and Sister" is a well-known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of ''Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales)''. It is alternatively known as "Little Sister and Little Brother" or (in the Grimm's version) "''Brüderchen und Schwesterchen''". ==Plot synopsis== Tired of the cruel mistreatment they endure from their wicked stepmother, who is also a witch, a brother and sister run away from home one day. They wander off into the countryside and spend the night in the woods. By morning the boy was thirsty, and so the children go looking for a spring of clear water. But their stepmother has already discovered their escape, and has bewitched all the springs in the forest. The boy was about to drink from one, when his sister heard how its rushing sound said "Whoever drinks from me will become a tiger". Desperately, the girl begs her brother not to drink from the spring, lest he transform into a tiger and tear her to pieces. So they continue on their way, but when they come to the second spring the girl hears it say, "Whoever drinks from me will become a wolf". Again, she desperately tried to prevent her brother from drinking from it. Reluctantly, he eventually agreed to her pleas but insisted he would drink from the next spring they encountered. And so they arrived at the third spring, and the girl overheard the rushing water cry, "Whoever drinks from me will become a deer". But it was too late, because her brother had already drunk from it, and changed into a deer. As the initial feeling of despair cleared up, the children decided to stay and live in the woods forever. The girl would take care of her brother, and tied her gold chain around his neck. They went to live in a little house deep within the woods and lived there happily for some years, until they were disturbed one day by a hunting party and the king himself who had followed the strange deer home. Upon seeing the beautiful girl, he immediately asks her to marry him and she accepts. Thus she became queen and they all live happily in the king's castle. Time passes and the queen gives birth to a son. Their stepmother however soon discovered that they are still alive, and plots against them. One night, she kills the queen and replaces her with her own disfigured daughter, whom she had transformed to resemble her. When the queen's ghost secretly visits her baby's bedside for three consecutive nights however, the king caught on and her stepmother's evil plan was exposed. The queen comes back to life and her stepfamily are tried for their crimes. The daughter is banished into the woods, where she is torn to pieces by wild animals and her mother is burned at the stake. At the exact moment of her death the boy becomes human again, and at long last the family is reunited. They all lived happily ever after. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brother and Sister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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