What Came of Picking Flowers

What came of picking Flowers is a Portuguese fairy tale first collected by Teophilo Braga with the name Cravo, Rosa e Jasmin.

The woman bewailed this so long that her son, just a boy when his sisters vanished, grew up to be a man.

He found three big boys fighting over their inheritance: boots with which the wearer could wish himself anywhere, a key that opened every lock, and an invisibility cap.

Her husband returned; the son put on his cap, and a bird flew in and became a man.

The next day, he saw his youngest sister, who had been carried off by a monster, and was weeping and thin from its cruelty, because she had refused to marry it.

[2] The tale was included in The Allies Fairy Book (1916), with illustrations by Arthur Rackham.