query: fairy tales

[tigriswolf]

If you could have me retell any fairy tale (in poem, drabble, or ficlet length), which would it be?

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[clovrboy.livejournal.com]

The Wild Swans is a fairy tale about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell turned them into swans cast by an evil queen that married their father by knitting them shirts or thorns I think and taking a vow of silence till the shirts are finished, along the way she meets a prince, gets accused of being a witch and almost burned at the stake but is saved by her bother the she breaks the spell and marries the prince. I'm probably forgetting lots of thing but that's the most of it. I think I have the story somewhere in case you want to read it let me know.

[tigriswolf]

I know the story; I just didn't recognize the name.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Nicholas Grey did a great version of this, called "The Seventh Swan".