![]() ![]() The king of another faraway land happens to come across the mute Elisa and falls in love with her. Elisa endures painfully blistered hands from nettle stings, and she must also take a vow of silence for the duration of her task, for speaking one word will kill her brothers. There, Elisa is guided by the queen of the fairies to gather nettles in graveyards she knits these into shirts that will eventually help her brothers regain their human shapes. The brothers carry Elisa to safety in a foreign land where she is out of harm's way of her stepmother. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa, but Elisa's goodness is too strong for this, so she has Elisa banished. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans (they are allowed to become human by night) and forces them to fly away. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. In a faraway kingdom, there lives a King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. It has been adapted to various media including ballet, television, and animated film. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 as the first installment in Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. "The Wild Swans" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. ![]()
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