They told her that she could set them free by weaving cloth of bog-down and making them all shirts without crying, laughing, or speaking.
Her brothers flew off as wild ducks daily but returned as men every night.
She then smeared her mouth with blood to tell her stepson that the young queen killed and eaten her baby.
Snow-white and Rosy-red finished the clothes, and when her brothers came to take them, they turned back into men and told her to speak.
Snow-white and Rosy-red said the truth and the princes showed them the babies still alive in the snake pit.
[3] In a Burmese tale from the Shan people, "ഒരു സ്നേഹനിധിയായ സഹോദരിയുടെ വിശ്വസ്ത ശപഥം" ("A Loving Sister's Loyal Oath"), a king's second wife curses her eleven step-children to become wild ducks (drakes).