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The Story Finder

Voices in Fairy Tales

by Michelle Tocher

Story finder - Curly

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Blindfolded Cobbler

Themes: Necessity | Resolve

I open my stall early today and get myself a prime spot near the gates of town. Then a beautiful young woman approaches me. A vision!

She puts a piece of gold in my hand and tells me to take my needle and thread and follow her. I assume she has some stitchwork for me to do.

On the way, she binds my eyes with a handkerchief. When we come to a stop, she removes the bandage. Before me lies the body of a man, cut into four pieces. “Sew him back together again,” she says.

I set to work as if the body were just another pair of shoes.

The Blindfolded Cobbler in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Blue Fairy Book