Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess whose father wanted to marry off to the highest bidder.
Her father was a grumpy man that never knew love and would not understand the princess protests.
She drove any potential husband away with clever (and sometimes cruel) tactics.
She would chew on garlic all day long, would not take baths for weeks, put bugs in her hair and fill her shoes with pig poop.
One day her father had enough and angrily sent her away to be locked in a castle with a terrible witch.
He then took a mute servant and put her in the princess place. He promised her a large sum of money for her family if she never "said a word".
The girl was married in less than two moons and fell deeply in love with her husband. They had 7 children and no one ever knew she was not the real princess. Her husband, tired of all the snotty noble ladies he knew was completely devoted to that simple, caring woman and thanked the stars for bringing her to him.
The real princess was left in a scary looking castle with 5 other girls.
She was very surprised to find that they were all very happy and there was no terrible witch. There was however a very smart older woman who came up with the idea of turning an abandoned castle into a fake-terrifying-dungeon and live a very comfortable life with payments from all the people that wanted to send some girl to be locked away and never found.
The "prisoners" where free to do as they wished and they all got a share of the money. Some of them went of to live far away, those 5 stayed... and the princess soon found out why as she fell in love with each and every one of the women and lived a happy life coming up with new ways to pretend the castle was haunted.
And she was washed everyday by 10 loving hands and smelled nicely ever after.
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