Thinking that his sons had gone out to play and forgotten all about their task, the father angrily wished they turn into seven ravens, only to regret his words when the curse came true and saw the seven brothers flying away.

Even though their remaining child became healthy without the baptismal water, the couple had kept her brothers' existence a secret out of fear of losing her too.When the girl's father comes home from work that night, he is upset she now knows the truth, but his wife tells him there is nothing to be done.

When the girl arrives in the middle of the forest, a good fairy appears, telling her that the seven ravens live safely in the Glass Mountain.

The fairy also informs the seven ravens' sister on how to lift the curse: for seven years, she must not speak while sewing seven shirts made out of her long golden hair.

Stunned by the silent maiden's beauty, the prince takes her home and makes her his wife in spite of some subjects' objections to the match.

Despite living a luxurious lifestyle, the peasant maiden-turned-princess remains mute to finish the seventh and last shirt; during winter, she opens the castle doors to the poor and gives them food.

When the princess is lead away to be burned, the fairy brings the shirts to the Glass Mountain, dropping them onto the seven ravens and they transform into seven adult men.