The brothers get so angry at their father's cruel betrayal that they swear bloody revenge on every girl and move to an enchanted cottage deep in the forest, where they must feed on animals.

She first finds a now older Benjamin, who happily greets her and then introduces them to their other brothers, convincing them to stop their revenge on girls.

Some time later as the sister rips out twelve white lilies out of ignorance, her brothers turn to ravens and fly away.

As the pyre is lit, the seven years pass and the twelve ravens arrive: they recover their human forms as soon as they touch the ground, then they put out the flames and free their sister.

With the cruel mother-in-law executed (via being placed in a barrel filled with boiling oil and poisonous snakes), they (with the brothers) all live happily together.