The Terrible HeadOnce upon a time there was a king whose only child was a
girl. Now the King had been very anxious to have a son, or at
least a grandson, to come after him, but he was told by a prophet
whom he consulted that his own daughter’s son should kill
him. This news terrified him so much that he determined never
to let his daughter be married, for he thought it was better to
have no grandson at all than to be killed by his grandson. He
therefore called his workmen together, and bade them dig a deep
round hole in the earth, and then he had a prison of brass built in
the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his
daughter. No man ever saw her, and she never saw even the
fields and the sea, but only the sky and the sun, for there was a
wide open window in t
