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* In the Scottish ballad "The Twa Sisters", two constantly bickering princesses who have fallen in love with the same man go for a walk on the banks of a swollen river. One comes back and says the other one fell in and drowned. No one can find the body - but a few months later a wandering bard shows up with a harp made from the dead princess's bones and strung with her hair. The harp plays itself and sings that her sister pushed her into the river. In [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s retelling of the story, there is a third princess, who knows her sister was [[Malicious Slander|a liar]] and suspects the harp might, too -- especially since there are lies in what it said.