When she gave birth to a daughter, the fairies blessed the baby with beauty, riches, and having flowers fall from her mouth when she spoke.
A man gave her shelter, but when the prince returned, his betrothed claimed to be the enchanted maiden, who could not go to him because she was blind.
[3] However, Christine Goldberg classified the tale as "The Blind Girl":[4] the heroine is blessed at birth by kind fairies with the ability to produce wonderful objects (flowers, gold, pearls, etc.
), which draws the attention of a prince later in life, who wishes to marry her; however, a jealous bride tears out her eyes and abandons the heroine; at the end of the story, the heroine buys back her eyes, unmasks the impostor and marries the prince.
In the new tale type, the heroine is blessed at birth by good spirits with the ability to produce gold with her tears and her hands, but, later in life, is blinded by a jealous rival, until a helper buys back her eyes.