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"If we had children there'd be life enough," she said. }}
 
"Tatterhood" is a [[Fairy Tale]] from [[Useful Notes/Norway|Norway]]. In it, a beggar woman tells a queen that she will have children if she eats one of two flowers, but warns her that, since one is pretty and one is ugly, to ONLY eat the [[Beauty Equals Goodness|pretty one]]. The [[Good Is Dumb|Queen]] eats the ugly one as well. Then she gives birth to two daughters, one of whom is beautiful and good, and the other one a little... different.
 
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.