Beschrijving
A stepfather forces a girl to leave home and tells her never to return. She finds refuge in the home of another couple. One day while his wife is away the husband asks her to marry him. She flees (cf. Type 5101 c). She wanders to an old woman's house in the woods. The latter gives her a hunter's suit, with which she disguises as man and travels through the woods unrecognized by bandits. She acts as page for a queen who falls in love with her. She is assigned task of securing a feather of a certain bird. An old man tells her that the queen is a witch and how to secure the feather. She returns with it to he queen who proposes marriage again and asks her to kill the king. When the girl refuses, the queen tells the king that the girl is a witch. The king orders her burned. The feather becomes a bird that tells the queen that the page is a girl and the king that the queen is a witch. The queen is burned and the king marries the girl. Cf. Types 425K, 434, 514, 5l4**, 881*.
Subgenre
sprookje