She lost her way and in the night found a house with a gray-haired man and a hen, a cock, and a brindled cow.

She pet the animals, and when she had made supper for herself and the old man, also got barley for the birds and hay for the cow.

Still, it stopped, and she went back to sleep In the morning, she found herself in a palace with a king's son, enchanted with three attendants.

The king's son had been bewitched by an evil fairy to remain there as an old man until the arrival of a woman who is very kind to people and animals.

He summoned her parents to the wedding, and made her sisters servants to a charcoal burner, until they learned not to leave poor animals to suffer hunger.