Tale

 1 Pre   |       The Fables of Bidpai, The Seven Wise Masters, Gesta Romanorum,
 2 Lamb  |      little Lambikin stayed for seven days, and ate, and ate,
 3 Punch |        there was a Raja who had seven beautiful daughters. They
 4 Punch |       little children, so these seven poor Princesses were left
 5 Punch |        day, every day, when the seven Princesses were preparing
 6 Punch |      the wall.~There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing
 7 Punch |         the new Ranee hated the seven poor Princesses, and wanted
 8 Punch |        water to drink; so these seven poor little Princesses,
 9 Punch |      how it is, every day those seven girls say they don't want
10 Punch |      And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any
11 Punch |    mother, "I do not wonder the seven Princesses will not eat
12 Punch |        well.~Next day, when the seven Princesses went as usual
13 Punch |         life, you must kill the seven daughters of your first
14 Punch |          it being very hot, the seven Princesses all fell asleep,
15 Punch |        quite well.~Meantime the seven Princesses awoke, and when
16 Punch | happened that this very day the seven young sons of a neighbouring
17 Punch |         out what it is."~So the seven Princes rode through the
18 Punch |     came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and
19 Punch |  kingdom at the marriage of the seven young Princes to seven such
20 Punch |      the seven young Princes to seven such beautiful Princesses.~
21 Punch |        that it was as if he had seven fathers and seven mothers.
22 Punch |        he had seven fathers and seven mothers. None of the other
23 Punch |         did not return.~And the seven Princesses grieved very
24 Punch |       Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned
25 Punch |       and she, her son, and the seven Princes went to their own
26 Magic |         upon a time there lived seven brothers and a sister. The
27 Queens|                      The Son of Seven Queens~ONCE upon a time
28 Queens|      there lived a king who had seven Queens, but no children.
29 Queens|   accomplished, and one of your seven Queens shall bear a son."~
30 Queens|         the land.~Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously
31 Queens|          before he started, the seven Queens sent him a message
32 Queens|        she only laughed, saying seven Queens were quite enough
33 Boy   |      his Chin~In a country were seven daughters of poor parents,
34 Boy   |      day, when the King and his seven sons-in-law were in his
35 GeNote|          known to Europe as The Seven Sages of Rome: from this
36 StNote|         Parallels. - The son of seven mothers is a characteristic
37 StNote|        see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection,
38 StNote|        of both.~XVI. THE SON OF SEVEN QUEENS.~Source. - Steel-Temple,
39 StNote|      410). The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise
40 StNote|       Sizil. Mähr. No. 80), the seven co-queens are transformed
41 StNote|  co-queens are transformed into seven step-daughters of the envious