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{{quote|Once on a time there was [[Law of Inverse Fertility|a king and a queen who had no children, and that gave the queen much grief]]; she scarce had one happy hour. She was always bewailing and bemoaning herself, and saying how dull and lonesome it was in the palace.
"If we had children there'd be life enough," she said. }}
Of course, the girl, named [[Meaningful Name|Tatterhood]] for her ragged clothes (she also carries a wooden ladle and rides on a goat), has her redeeming qualities--she's a stone-cold [[Badass]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]] who [[Cowboy Cop|takes the law into her own hands]] where goblins and witches are concerned, even running outside during their terrifying celebration and [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|bopping them on the head with her ladle]]. Her maids are less brave, though, and a witch turns the beautiful princess into a calf. Tatterhood, deciding that this just won't do, takes her sister on a long sea-voyage to break the spell, eventually breaking into the witches' castle and fighting them all off in order to turn her sister back into a human.
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After this, the sisters travel at sea for a while, until they come to a faraway kingdom where the beautiful princess ends up [[Values Dissonance|marrying a forty-year-old king while Tatterhood marries his son]]. When Tatterhood marries, however, a final surprise awaits...
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170530081436/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/tatterhood.html Can be read online here.] Also, remade by [[Opal's Free Stories]].
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* [[Action Girl]]: Tatterhood. And ''how.'' Even when only [[Little Miss Badass|"half grown up"]] she takes on an unknown number of trolls and witches and beats them easily.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: A variant of this happens to the beautiful sister when a witch gives her the head of a calf.
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