The Three Princesses

Once a queen gave birth to three baby girls but though they were each as beautiful as an August day, one could not hear and one could not see and one was born without hands.
So the queen took her three baby girls to see the fairy who lived in the woods and asked her for help and she gave the girl who could not hear an ear of corn to hear through and the girl who could not see the eye of a needle to see through and the girl who had no hands, the hands of a clock to hold things with.
Seeing the strange gifts, the queen thought the fairy either mad or simple but, because it is wiser not to insult fairies, she said nothing but just took the gifts with a smile and left.
One day, however, the three princesses were kidnapped by a troll and held for ransome in his cave.
But while the Troll was sleeping, the blind girl, hearing him snore told her sister without hands and signed to her sister that could not hear that they should seize the opportunity to escape and so they ran out of the cave.
When the Troll woke up however, seeing that the girls were gone, he set out after them and he caught up to them as they were passing a corn field and as the girl who could not hear was passing by the field she said,
"Wait. I can hear something".
"What do you hear?", asked the other two girls.

"The wind is whispering to me", she replied, "The way it whispers to ears of corn and it says that it has seen a Troll chasing us and that he is almost upon us".
"Then what shall we do?", asked the blind girl
"The wind says that there is an old abandoned farmhouse on the other side of this field", said the deaf girl.
So they started to cross the cornfield.
But when they were halfway across the field, the Troll arrived and, seeing them, he transformed his magic walking stick into a large scythe and started mowing his way through the cornfield towards them.
And, sadly, though the blind girl and the girl without hands reached the abandoned farmhouse on the other side of the field, the deaf girl was cut down by the scyth of the troll.
But then as they were hiding in the farmhouse, the blind girl took out the needle that the fairy had given her as a baby.
"If our sister could hear through ears of corn, perhaps I can see through the eye of a needle", she said to her sister without hands.
And, holding the eye of the needle up to her eye, to her amazement she could see through it; infact she could see more clearly than through a magnifying glass and farther than through a telescope.
And realizing how well she could see through the needle it gave the blind girl an idea and, taking a long reel of thread from her pocket, she threaded it through the needle and tied it.
Then she went out of the farm house to face the Troll.
Ofcourse, when the Troll saw her, he only laughed evily, turning his walking stick into a hammer.
But then, looking at the troll through the eye of the needle, she took aim at his left eye and then swung the needle by the reel of thread towards it.
And the point of the needle, hitting the trolls left eye, dead centre, pierced it and blinded it.
Roaring in pain the Troll now raised his hammer and charged towards her.
But then the blind girl took aim at his right eye and blinded it aswell.
Unfortunately, before she was able to blind his third eye, the Troll threw his hammer and the blind girl was struck dead.
But then the Troll heard the sound of the third girl; the girl without hands, coming from inside the farmhouse and entering it, he turned his walking stick into an axe and, laughed evilly as he walking towards her with it.
But as the girl was screaming, holding up her handless arms to try and hold him back, because she had the hands of a clock she held back time instead.
Infact she stopped time and froze the troll within it.
Then, realizing what her magic hands could do, she pulled so hard that she pulled her two sisters out of the past, saving them from being killed.
But then the three sisters, taking the Trolls magic walking stick from his hands, turned it into a wooden horse and rode home upon it, living happily ever after.