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The newborn Princess Bedelia of Arapathia is blessed by three good fairies with the gifts of beauty, grace (ala Sleeping Beauty), &... Common sense.Eighteen-years later, a dragon takes up residence on a mountain in the kingdom, demanding a princess to devour, or else it would turn its fiery-breath down on the kingdom.
A bedtime story is a traditional form of storytelling, where a story is told to a child at bedtime to prepare the child for sleep. The bedtime story has long been considered "a definite institution in many families". [1] The term "bedtime story" was coined by Louise Chandler Moulton in her 1873 book, Bed-time Stories.
But the princess saves herself by making a "princess dummy" out of straw and filling it with boiling pitch and tar. The princess dresses the straw dummy in one of her own gowns, then goes to the dragon's cave where she offers herself as a sacrifice. The unwitting dragon swallows the dummy whole, and the pitch and tar explode inside the dragon's ...
The youngest princess decides to seek him out, and stops by a lion's den. She overhears a conversation between a lion and a lioness about the rosebush prince and how their liver and heart can cure him. After the lions sleep, the princess kills them to take their heart and liver to cure the prince. [23]
While the princess is distracted there, one of her sisters rush to her palace to check on the secret tunnel. Suddenly, the sultan's son begins to traverse the tunnel - made entirely of glass -, and the princess's sister throws a stone at him. Part of the glass tunnel breaks and a shard injures him in the eye. The prince retreats back to his ...
In this story, the princess holds a vigil on a king that will only awake on St. John's Day. She buys a slave woman for company, who takes her place at the king's bed and passes herself as his saviour. The despondent princess asks the prince to bring her two objects: a hard stone and the branch of bitterness.
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Bedtime Tales (Japanese: 別タイトル: ベッドのおとぎばなし; Beddo no otogibanashi) (1987) is a collection of short stories published in 1987 by Japanese author Yoko Mori. The collection was translated by Sonya L. Johnson and was published by Kodansha under the Kodansha English Library series in 1993.