The Six Servants

During his voyage the prince meets six men with amazing talents and powers, whom he all takes along to be his servants.

The fourth one a man who wears a blindfold in front of his eyes because his glance is so powerful that it makes everything he sees split to pieces.

If the Queen returns around the clock of midnight and the princess is no longer in his arms, then his life will be lost.

The latter looks at the rock, causing it to shatter into a thousand pieces, while the Tall One grabs the princess and brings her back before deadline.

With all three tasks fulfilled the Queen whispers in her daughter's ear that it's a shame that she has to obey common people and not being allowed to choose a husband to her own liking, which makes the princess angry.

The servant who can't stand cold fulfills the task, still shivering as the flames have burnt out.

He forces his bride to work in extreme poverty and misery for eight days, causing her to believe it is what she deserved for being so proud and haughty.

A huge animatronic statue of the long-necked servant can be seen there since 1952, telling the story to all visitors on a repeated audio recording.

A bust of the servant with the sharp eyesight, Bullet-eye, with a wasp on his nose stood next to Long-neck.

The tale is voiced by Peter Reijnders, and can be read from a book in Dutch, English, French and German.

The story is very similar to other European folk tales and fairy tales about a man with very talented servants, such as How Six Made Their Way in the World, Long, Broad and Sharpsight, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, The Clever Little Tailor and one of the stories in Baron Munchhausen.

Langnek in the Fairy Tale Forest of the Dutch theme park Efteling