
Von Schonwerth’s “The Iron Shoes”
The king’s groundskeeper doesn’t know what to do with his son so he kicks him off the farm with anger. Hans goes out into the world and encounters a dark, ruined castle. Inside, all is silent. Exhausted, he wants to rest, and a woman in black gives him food and wordlessly points to the bed. Three days he endures torture from dark figures, and the woman, now in white, saves and marries him.
Returning to his father wearing a magic ring, he is not recognized, and at the king’s feast he feels belittled and calls the princess to prove his worth. Since he broke his promise, she is gone the next…
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