A promise broken

A promise nobody asked for, freely given and then not kept, with the tale exacting the cost: the princess who says she will come back to the King of the Sheep, stays away, and finds what her delay has done.

• The Grateful PrinceThe Violet Fairy Book
• The Wonderful SheepThe Blue Fairy Book
• Jack my HedgehogThe Green Fairy Book
• The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken PromiseThe Yellow Fairy Book
• The Story of Dschemil and DschemilaThe Grey Fairy Book
• Mohammed with the Magic FingerThe Grey Fairy Book
• The SunchildThe Grey Fairy Book
• How a Fish swam in the Air and a Hare in the WaterThe Violet Fairy Book