In this case though the protagonist marries the youngest daughter instead of the eldest. Sure it makes more sense considering the youngest in both versions were clearly partly aware of his presence but marrying the eldest in 12 Princesses meant he'd get to inherit the kingdom.
I don't know how many people actually notice but when the shepherd was presenting the evidence the youngest was the only one who looked pretty guilty while the eldest look pretty confident
@AfianySnow29802 the eldest siblings didn't feel guilt nor shame thus got punishment. Thhe youngest feels guilt and shame for doing that thus was forgiven and married off. The stories sometimes repeat the same message and even after the repetition people still don't get it. It didn't matter if they had blonde or any other hair. The point was not to commit the wrong and if you did you should have felt guilt and ask for forgiveness.
I did a little bit of research after hearing this story. I found out that the reason the youngest got off scott-free is because she admitted to dancing with devils while her elder sisters denied everything, even if there's evidence against them. Just goes to show that lying about what you did (or didn't do in this case) would only get you into more trouble than admitting it
Well I guess if she admitted to her fault, that seems like she has a less chance of a harsh punishment. Bitter scolding but hey, at least she didn't deny her sins.
Now that you mentioned it, in the scene where the sheperd was explaining what happened to the king, the youngest daughter looked and acted ashamed, but the older two acted as though they didn't but you can see they were denying everything from their hair popping out of place.
I think the youngest didn’t get a punishment because only the eldest and the middle child dropped their spoon and fork at the devil place. So there was no evidence that the youngest had danced with devils which was the greatest sin. Going to the silver, gold, and diamond forests were forgivable but dancing with devils was not.
I wonder what kinds of STDs you get from "dancing with 12 devils" every night... XD yikes... sure anyone still 'wants' to marry that youngest daughter?
An interesting theory, and could be true. However, I've noticed a trend in these folktales that it's usually the youngest son/daughter that end up happily ever after with the protagonist at the expense of the rest. I think it has to do with the symbolism that youth equates to beauty and innocence. As it is further accentuated on this one when the elder daughters make fun of the youngest.
Yes this one story is gonna make girls have bad self esteem. Self esteem comes from yourself hence the name. Don’t look at folk tales of all things to tell you you’re pretty. It’s actually really sad that some people feel they need to be told that they’re pretty or worth anything threw a cartoon. That should come from your own self and the people you love
lol a fairytale full of fantasies like dancing with the devils and flying on broomsticks and the first thing you gotta say is that. I don't think that was the point at all.
My people believed in witches and magicians and they were never burned, except the ones who are did "curses". But priests co-operated with good-magicians to catch them. Its complicated, our ancient paganism were fulfilled with similar creatures and persons like christianity. There are actual hungarian pagans in moldavia and transilvania and they pray to their moon goddess "Babba" before the statue of Virgin Mary. I have read a priests interwiev when he ask them why they call her "Babba Mary", and they answered " because she is beautyfull". But when i read a reporter's interwiev, they replied " Babba has nothing to do with Mary, except that she given birth to her too". 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think in the original story the youngest must have been the only one who apologized and that's why she doesn't get locked up. The other two get locked up for witchcraft
Keep calm everyone. The oldest ones were only locked in at night to prevent more escapades. They weren't held prisoner in the tower 24/7. They had it harsher because they were being a bad influence for their younger sister. And I agree with those who said "dancing" is most likely an euphemism for something more serious, as usual in very old folk tales. The same goes for the 12 dancing princesses version.
Actually, it was said the traveling man married the eldest of the twelve sisters because the traveler used to be a soldier, and claimed himself to not be 'as young' anymore.
In the german versions of the story, the princesses are 12 and go dancing with cursed princes, who will be saved through dancing every night. Versions vary on whether there are 12 or 11 princes (and that’s why the youngest ends up with the spy) and whether or not the princes are saved
Plus she's always blonde. The youngest always seems to be blonde, even though most Hungarians aren't. It's pretty common to have 'golden haired' heroines in European folk tales because it's 'special,' but it would be a nice change if all the heroines of these tales weren't blonde.
Moral of the story: Be like the daughter who didn't get locked up. Be the youngest child as well as blond. Don't drop your silverware, don't lie when you go out dancing with devils (or as another commentor said, "drinking and clubbing,"), be reasonably cautious and don't give into peer pressure. Also shepards are magic.
@@Cupcake12347 People think that Europeans are generally found attractive due to their looks. While the truth is that people simply associate European looks with attractive character traits.
Never mind the fact that this version of the 12 Dancing Princesses takes place in Hell, somehow this shepherd boy manages to figure out their secret without needing an invisible cloak. That in itself is badass.
King: So what did you find? Shephard boy: They were dancing with devils/ King: Your proof? Shephard boy: Fancy Silverware King: ... That's makes total sense!
When they danced on razor blades, how did they not cut their feet after each pair of shoes were destroyed??? Also, I think the reason why the blond princess got off easy was because she was the youngest and most easiest to manipulate/persuade into doing things she wouldn't necessarily want to do. Hence all the gasping and the fear she had during the adventure!
Dancing is a metaphor for having sex. They didn’t bleed from their feet because they were bleeding from their hymen which is why they rub ointment on the stick to heal and get used to friction
There is a similiar story to this from Cape Verde, but there was only one princess instead of three, and the boy (he was a city boy not a shepher in this version) refused to marry the princess because she danced with danced with devils. I think I prefer that one.
My mother is from capeverde and she told me her nanny would tell and her sister a story like this, but the princesses were twelve sisters who were being controlled by fairy prince by being put in a trance. The princesses weren't evil or witches.
Old King= "Well Son. Have you found out anything? Have you seen anything?" Young Shepherd= "I have, Good King. Your daughters spend their nights consorting with witches and dancing with demons." The old king just stares; lost for words and unable to express his horror.
My favorite videos on this channel: 1.the slipper tearing princesses 2.Cinderella 3. The mayor’s clever daughter 4. how I passed my childhood 5. Tiny Tom and the lily princess 6. The little cockerel and the hedge
@@aranxtil5554Seriously? Again! I just watched a story where a boy gave his animals to a princess if she was willing to lift up her skirt for him… No underwear
"Your Majesty, I'm a stranger. I can solve your issues" "By what?" "By pretending to sleep on the floor inside your three daughters bedroom and watch they while sleeping together in a same room." "Ok. Nice. Do it."
Omg, knowing the origin of where 'witches riding on brooms comes from' I bet those princesses did more than rub that ointment on their knees and arms hahaha 😆
yeah , my first thoughts was that this father instead of asking his daughters or merely not supplying the daughters 12 pairs of shoes each night would rather let a random man sleep in his kids bedroom like whhaaaaaaaa
Alright, so this is pretty clearly ATU 306 (Twelve Dancing Princesses), but I'm seeing some interesting details here. Obviously the ending is the biggest difference to other versions I've seen, but this is one of the only ones I've seen that has the use of flying ointment. In European lore (and some parts of the US) "flying ointment" was a poisonous/hallucinogenic salve used in witchy ritual stuff. Although contrary to what fairy tales would have you believe, "flying" in this case was more like "astral projection".
I was like "why is a german tale in the list of hungarian folk tales?" and then i realize how they come from similar cultural origins and used to be part one of kingdom/empire before things went haywire....yeah.
No, Germany and Hungary was never part of a same empire. Altough at the begining of the 15th century we had the same king, the countries were never united. On the other hand we were in a monarchy with Austria.
As I agree the ending doesn't have a fair ending the reason could be that they are the older daughters and they know more as to not escape during the night, in the story it clearly shows how the youngest daughter knows less and is guided by the more mature sisters
the elder daughters were maybe old enough to know what they were getting into while the young one was still a child? ( you got married even in child age back then btw )
Wait a minute. I have a book from my childhood which contains this story and there is no witch and broom and ointment and things like these in that. That version goes like this: there were three young man trying to find out where the girls are going every night. However, two of the three man felt asleep before getting a chance to see where they are going, because the girls gave them alcohol. Only the third one didn't fall asleep since he put a sponge under his mouth and poured the wine into it.
These stories are thousands of years old, they changed all the time as new versions where invented. It's how stories evolve over time, and how they stay alive.
@@sharkstriker1 I agree, but if they had freedom they should not have used it to dance with devils. What I don't understand is why the youngest didn't get punished. That's just the way life works, do the crime pay the time
OK from my understanding is that the 2 older sisters got in trouble because they lost their virginity to "he devils" (aka they dropped their spoon/fork) but the youngest didn't. Basically this story says that 3 chicks would sneak out at night, have some drinks, go clubbing at night with some dudes, two of them got laid, and when they were caught, the youngest was married off to some guy because not only did she not sleep around, she was obviously hesitant about the whole thing... and the older ones were locked in their room at night so they couldn't go sleeping around anymore.... is this accurate? Lol.
So the reason the youngest wasn't punished was because she came clean unlike her sisters but is there any evidence that the youngest never wanted to join her sisters in the first place? She seemed very worried the whole time like she was scared of getting caught, a lot of people are nervous about that when they do something bad for the first time. and when they reached the palace to dance with the devils, she looks like she's cowering.
I heard somewhere that the reason why she got away free because she admitted that what she and her sisters is true while the sisters denied, despite the evidence presented to the king.
This reminds me of a fairytale from my childhood, instead of 3 daughters the king had like 12 daughters and the same thing with the shoes happened. They didn’t go into silver or gold forests tho, they only ran away into a forest and danced the night away, a shepherd did follow them and he married the eldest since she knew he was following them from the beginning and was the only one to admit to it.
This is basically a different version the the 12 dancing princesses, and my goodness a much darker version of it at that. The princesses were genuine bonafide witches in this one flying on brooms slathered in witch ointment (which according to folklore that I've read is made from the fat of murdered babies), dancing in hell with demons. There is honestly nothing redeemable about them as they seem to do all this willingly. Most versions I have heard of have the princesses usually naively tricked by monsters pretending to be handsome men or being controlled by them where they are in a trance like state and are unaware of the danger they are in. Both times they are at least semi innocent victims that have been mislead and need rescuing from their situation. Here they are active participants... also the youngest being nervous doesn't absolve her, I think she should have been locked up with her sisters.
Abi Farrell I’m inclined to agree with you in this particular case, since the narrator clearly states in the end that the slipper-tearing stopped completely, which implies one of two things (or possibly both): *(1) ::* The youngest princess only went along with her sisters’ nightly shenanigans out of pure peer pressure from her sisters, who more than likely bullied her into doing so (as evidenced by them laughing at her whenever she is frightened instead of showing any real concern for her), and/or *(2) ::* The shepherd was a good enough influence on the youngest princess that she ultimately changed her ways and was redeemed, unlike her sisters who presumably refused to change their ways and thus could no longer be trusted to wander freely at night. In either case, by all accounts, the king’s actions were a relatively fair and mild example of tough love that ultimately paid off, at least with respect to the youngest princess. And to be fair, that’s much more than what can be said for other versions of this story (which can range from the male lead refusing to marry the youngest princess because she had already danced with the demons, to the two older princesses (or even all three princesses in some versions) being convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake).
Interesting, in the story I heard growing up (from my Hungarian grandmother) the youngest girl never went along to dance, and so she wasn't punished and married the shepherd.
I noticed an interesting detail when it comes to magic items that come in sets of three in Hungarian stories. If the items involve a male character they come in copper, then silver, then gold, and if they involve a female character they come in silver, then gold, then diamond. Why is that?
It's not just a hungarian thing. Things in fairytales usually come in sets of three. There are usually also three allies, three events, three daughters... It's called "Rule of three" and it's everywhere in storytelling, you probably didn't even notice. But look it up and you'll see how many things use the number three even today. The reason for that is because "Two is a pair, three is a pattern". It's a very ergonomic number in stories. Down to the structure of beginning, middle and end. Simply put, two things are often too little and four things tend to become redundant. So storytellers often settle on three, just enough not to bore the audience.
@@d4n737 I wasn’t referring to the number of items, I was referring to what they are made of. Male character: copper, silver, gold Female character: silver, gold, diamond
Mu mu Booger i don't know maybe because the guy wanted to marry her. In hungarian folk tales the youngest sisters are always the most innocent, prettiest girls... idk it's weird
Simple, he didn’t rat out the one he liked for he didn’t provide evidence she danced with the devils. He only provided evidence that she was along for the ride but didn’t indulge in hedonism, tongue in cheek meaning for “dancing with devils.”
Mu mu Booger I’m guessing the older sisters kind of forced their sister to come along, which is why when the shepherd snapped the branches and the sound was made, she was the only one was frighted. When he gave his tale, she was the only one who showed remorse for the deeds. So in turn she was let off.
So basically, because of their father sheltering them and keeping them locked up, they rebelled and partied. So his response is to shelter and lock them up even further. A+ parenting.
It never really said he was harsh with them. And it’s horrible of them to go out and dance with devils. He only kept them locked at night as a punishment. I don’t think the king was in the wrong
In fact, it's about the witch girls going into a trance, experiencing visions. The ointment (witch ointment, flying ointment) they put on themselves contains plants with hallucinogenic effects. It was believed that in such altered states of consciousness they could contact spirits, devils and fly to the other world where these beings dwell. As a Hungarian witch, I love these stories.
1:23 I just had to pause now LMAO what kind of dad letting a random man slept in the same room with his THREE daughters?! And a King who couldn't afford his daughters' footwear anymore... You're not a king anymore pfft... Not hating. Just.... This is too funny roflmao
I still think it would've been wiser of the king to punish all three princesses, since they were all seen by their spy at all 3 forbidden places . Otherwise, the only lesson learned by the princesses is that doing wrong is only acceptable if you're the youngest child . In other words, the king showed favoritism to the youngest by only punishing the 2 eldest .
I watched Grimm,s Fairy Tale Classics’ version years ago. In that one, they tapped the floor in their bedroom and stairs showed up vs them flying out with a witch. I like both.
Does anyone know any channels that do folk tales like this?? I’ve been binge watching all of these and I want to see if there are any from other countries as well! I love the animation and the way he tells the stories!!
I noticed in these tales, a lot of times the enchanted items are made from gold, silver and diamond. It's a recurring theme. Makes sense that those would be very valuable materials.
a darker side of 12 dancing princess...
I know because if you count the devils there were 12 of them lol
That’s my first thought when i watch this 😂😂 HAHAHAHHA
In this case though the protagonist marries the youngest daughter instead of the eldest. Sure it makes more sense considering the youngest in both versions were clearly partly aware of his presence but marrying the eldest in 12 Princesses meant he'd get to inherit the kingdom.
Yep
@@Takisan111 actually the shoemaker married the middle daughter in the movie.
So basically they went out for drinks and then went clubbing 😂😂
Kam3man In the most cut and dry way of saying it
Kam3man night clubs today 😂
Kam3man love your pic
I love your profile pic!
thats clubshaming ffs
I don't know how many people actually notice but when the shepherd was presenting the evidence the youngest was the only one who looked pretty guilty while the eldest look pretty confident
I noticed it tooo. That’s why at the end she got to marry and those brats were jailed at night😂
Still bugs me people don't notice that
Well, sorry, lol, also the youngst did they same bad thing but go away with it.
@jnegrete86 Well, sorry we didn't notice it, not all do like are make up feel guilty about it.
@AfianySnow29802 the eldest siblings didn't feel guilt nor shame thus got punishment. Thhe youngest feels guilt and shame for doing that thus was forgiven and married off. The stories sometimes repeat the same message and even after the repetition people still don't get it. It didn't matter if they had blonde or any other hair. The point was not to commit the wrong and if you did you should have felt guilt and ask for forgiveness.
I did a little bit of research after hearing this story. I found out that the reason the youngest got off scott-free is because she admitted to dancing with devils while her elder sisters denied everything, even if there's evidence against them. Just goes to show that lying about what you did (or didn't do in this case) would only get you into more trouble than admitting it
Well I guess if she admitted to her fault, that seems like she has a less chance of a harsh punishment. Bitter scolding but hey, at least she didn't deny her sins.
Now that you mentioned it, in the scene where the sheperd was explaining what happened to the king, the youngest daughter looked and acted ashamed, but the older two acted as though they didn't but you can see they were denying everything from their hair popping out of place.
I figured that was why. Too bad they ommitted that part.
Huh, that makes alot of sense
That makes sense, that their father forgave the one who admitted her wrong doings.
I think the youngest didn’t get a punishment because only the eldest and the middle child dropped their spoon and fork at the devil place. So there was no evidence that the youngest had danced with devils which was the greatest sin. Going to the silver, gold, and diamond forests were forgivable but dancing with devils was not.
Also she was the only one who showed even a shred of guilt for her actions while the two oldest acted as if they were immune to punishment.
she was married of to someone she just met that's enough of a punishment lmao
I wonder what kinds of STDs you get from "dancing with 12 devils" every night... XD yikes... sure anyone still 'wants' to marry that youngest daughter?
An interesting theory, and could be true. However, I've noticed a trend in these folktales that it's usually the youngest son/daughter that end up happily ever after with the protagonist at the expense of the rest. I think it has to do with the symbolism that youth equates to beauty and innocence. As it is further accentuated on this one when the elder daughters make fun of the youngest.
Maybe she also apologized and said it was her sisters idea.
You'll never be found guilty in these stories so long as you're the youngest and blond
Chubby Heart oh yes, so sad. And this is why young Girls without blonde haire feel ugly and get jealus
if your the eldest red head or the middle child raven hair then your the DEVIL
And have 2 eyes instead of 3
@@emmichilltamhandy1120 Then dye your hair blond. Problem solved!
Yes this one story is gonna make girls have bad self esteem. Self esteem comes from yourself hence the name. Don’t look at folk tales of all things to tell you you’re pretty. It’s actually really sad that some people feel they need to be told that they’re pretty or worth anything threw a cartoon. That should come from your own self and the people you love
He just let some male stranger into his daughters' bedroom alone at night while they were asleep...
Well in his defense they had guards to restrain the guy if ever tried anything not to mention that if he did do anything he would be executed.
HoneyedHylian
That made me nervous too lol!!!
lol a fairytale full of fantasies like dancing with the devils and flying on broomsticks and the first thing you gotta say is that. I don't think that was the point at all.
Different times back then.
Nowadays men are not kept under wraps so that wouldn't fly.
I was thinking 🤔 the same thing😔😰
1:58 _he rubbed the ointment on himself and on his stick_ 🙄
Haha
Well thats what happened.... Lol
😂😂😂
IKR?!
😂
and he fleeeeeeeeeeew
Is no one going to mention that the princesses were basicaly broom flying witches that went to a coven to dance with the devil?
MoonChild 🤔😱
Good for them
Sounds like my kinda night
My people believed in witches and magicians and they were never burned, except the ones who are did "curses". But priests co-operated with good-magicians to catch them. Its complicated, our ancient paganism were fulfilled with similar creatures and persons like christianity. There are actual hungarian pagans in moldavia and transilvania and they pray to their moon goddess "Babba" before the statue of Virgin Mary. I have read a priests interwiev when he ask them why they call her "Babba Mary", and they answered " because she is beautyfull".
But when i read a reporter's interwiev, they replied " Babba has nothing to do with Mary, except that she given birth to her too".
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think in the original story the youngest must have been the only one who apologized and that's why she doesn't get locked up. The other two get locked up for witchcraft
Moral of the story: being a bit paranoid can sometimes be good when someone snitches on you.
The one I gathered was never take ointment from a stranger, it could turn you stranger.
Snitches get stitches
Or
Moral of the story don't dance on razor blades
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If shes blonde in these stories, she’ll get off scott free lmao
Right!
Hungarian thing. Lol
Thought I was the only one who noticed aha
@@Daraling1 don't forget youngest, its always the youngest daughter too
Just like the Hitler youth.
That is one strong shepherd, able to break diamond like that.
Andre Lee Yeah! Dude broke a diamond with his bare fingers; I’d be frightened too! 3:24
diamond is hard, but rigid, with a suficiently long lever you can break it
What? You only need an iron pickaxe.
it was only a twig so i guess it would be more brittle than the diamonds that they put in wedding rings and stuff
diamond is relatively easy to break, it's just hard to scratch
Keep calm everyone. The oldest ones were only locked in at night to prevent more escapades. They weren't held prisoner in the tower 24/7. They had it harsher because they were being a bad influence for their younger sister. And I agree with those who said "dancing" is most likely an euphemism for something more serious, as usual in very old folk tales. The same goes for the 12 dancing princesses version.
Actually, it was said the traveling man married the eldest of the twelve sisters because the traveler used to be a soldier, and claimed himself to not be 'as young' anymore.
Kaytlin Justis
Yes
I still think the two older girls got a pretty harsh punishment for dancing the shoes to shreds.
That's right, after all the youngest was with them and danced too.
acla9000 I think it's because the youngest showed remorse and was likely manipulated a bit by her older sisters
Well the story is likely a metaphor. They werent just "dancing"
But they were in league with a witch and devils, and as someone else said it's a metaphor for many things.
I think they were just locked inside during the night so they couldn’t sneak out not thrown in jail t thou they probably miss there nightly adventures
In the german versions of the story, the princesses are 12 and go dancing with cursed princes, who will be saved through dancing every night. Versions vary on whether there are 12 or 11 princes (and that’s why the youngest ends up with the spy) and whether or not the princes are saved
Anyone else remember Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses? This is wonderful! I l9ve seeing where the stories I grew up with actually came from!
He allllllways marries the youngest... as the eldest daughter and the one who got into the least mischief, I feel slighted
(sighs) prejudice.....
There is a version where the prince picked the eldest daughter that I've heard.
Plus she's always blonde. The youngest always seems to be blonde, even though most Hungarians aren't. It's pretty common to have 'golden haired' heroines in European folk tales because it's 'special,' but it would be a nice change if all the heroines of these tales weren't blonde.
hey the older daughters can become cat ladies : 3
The Verion with the soldier has him marrying the eldest.
So they went clubbing with Satan's sons? Whaaaaaaaat
@@Sara-oo1ir because devils, that's why. Also now it's more than 800 likes
Naw, it’s just an allegory of girls having sex before marriage with bad boys
In hungary: demon=devil.
In america: satan= devil.
Even though she was afraid of the noise, the youngest daughter was still doing the bad stuff too
Yep!.
The Narrator sounds like he's not enjoying trying to talk about all the forests.
Yeah, he sounds as if he's rushing through that part.
@@GAshoneybear probably cuz he got tired of repeating it more than 3 times
Moral of the story: Be like the daughter who didn't get locked up. Be the youngest child as well as blond. Don't drop your silverware, don't lie when you go out dancing with devils (or as another commentor said, "drinking and clubbing,"), be reasonably cautious and don't give into peer pressure. Also shepards are magic.
No actually, she got off easy because she expressed guilt and shame, it was a show of character. Has nothing to do with her being Blonde and pretty.
@@Cupcake12347 People think that Europeans are generally found attractive due to their looks. While the truth is that people simply associate European looks with attractive character traits.
Never mind the fact that this version of the 12 Dancing Princesses takes place in Hell, somehow this shepherd boy manages to figure out their secret without needing an invisible cloak. That in itself is badass.
King: So what did you find?
Shephard boy: They were dancing with devils/
King: Your proof?
Shephard boy: Fancy Silverware
King: ... That's makes total sense!
When they danced on razor blades, how did they not cut their feet after each pair of shoes were destroyed???
Also, I think the reason why the blond princess got off easy was because she was the youngest and most easiest to manipulate/persuade into doing things she wouldn't necessarily want to do. Hence all the gasping and the fear she had during the adventure!
Slippers were made of silk or satin and the soles could leather or wood.
I can agree, SAiKA. In fact, when the Shepard revealed what they were doing, she was the only one who was actually sorry for her deeds.
Because this is a tale... don't get distracted by the details.
Yes I was waiting for blood to come out
Dancing is a metaphor for having sex. They didn’t bleed from their feet because they were bleeding from their hymen which is why they rub ointment on the stick to heal and get used to friction
There is a similiar story to this from Cape Verde, but there was only one princess instead of three, and the boy (he was a city boy not a shepher in this version) refused to marry the princess because she danced with danced with devils. I think I prefer that one.
My mother is from capeverde and she told me her nanny would tell and her sister a story like this, but the princesses were twelve sisters who were being controlled by fairy prince by being put in a trance. The princesses weren't evil or witches.
@@Passions5555 Nanny? Whoa, is she from Praia?
The other its better marry a guy that you didnt know its horrible
Omg i read that one. It's from Nilesh Mistry fairy tales book
I ain’t marrying no snitch
Exactly 😤
To be fair, the king hired him
these animations deserve more recognition!
Here in Hungary they are actually really popular to this day and goes on in Tv most of the time, theyre great 😊❤️👍
I'm not surprised the king had enough, imagine having to pay for 252 dance shoes every bloody week!!!
Old King= "Well Son. Have you found out anything? Have you seen anything?"
Young Shepherd= "I have, Good King. Your daughters spend their nights consorting with witches and dancing with demons."
The old king just stares; lost for words and unable to express his horror.
*snitch*
Viitea snitches get stitches lmao
I'm positively surprised, you Hungarians have that many folktales. They are just priceless for your culture!
Yeah if only they made sense
you should watch "the son of the white mare"
insane :)
@@matice2182 They make a lot of sense if you actually try to understand them.
This is related to the 12 dancing princesses! I wonder how many variations there are?
I was just thinking the same!
I was just thinking the same!
Me too!
There is a (Caribbean? African?) version where there's only one princess and she tears her wooden sandals every night dancing salsa with the devil
UTAU53Yui was just about to say that
"Golden fork and spoons"
*Utensils are clearly silver*
My favorite videos on this channel:
1.the slipper tearing princesses
2.Cinderella
3. The mayor’s clever daughter
4. how I passed my childhood
5. Tiny Tom and the lily princess
6. The little cockerel and the hedge
Aint the 3rd one where the girl flashes her father and the townspeople 💀
@@aranxtil5554Seriously? Again!
I just watched a story where a boy gave his animals to a princess if she was willing to lift up her skirt for him… No underwear
@@aranxtil5554yes 😭 I’m traumatized from that ep.
"Your Majesty, I'm a stranger. I can solve your issues"
"By what?"
"By pretending to sleep on the floor inside your three daughters bedroom and watch they while sleeping together in a same room."
"Ok. Nice. Do it."
Omg, knowing the origin of where 'witches riding on brooms comes from' I bet those princesses did more than rub that ointment on their knees and arms hahaha 😆
It was flying ointment, it's hallucinogenic so it gives witches the feeling of flying while hedge riding
@@CraftyTeo Yeah, we all know that. The tale's moral kinda contains some adult contents, with some ahem, metaphors.
@@o.602 ahem ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Is it me or is this one particularly wild? 🤣
I was laughing the entire time 😂
yeah , my first thoughts was that this father instead of asking his daughters or merely not supplying the daughters 12 pairs of shoes each night would rather let a random man sleep in his kids bedroom like whhaaaaaaaa
Alright, so this is pretty clearly ATU 306 (Twelve Dancing Princesses), but I'm seeing some interesting details here. Obviously the ending is the biggest difference to other versions I've seen, but this is one of the only ones I've seen that has the use of flying ointment. In European lore (and some parts of the US) "flying ointment" was a poisonous/hallucinogenic salve used in witchy ritual stuff. Although contrary to what fairy tales would have you believe, "flying" in this case was more like "astral projection".
Why am I obsessed with watching these? Lol
I was like "why is a german tale in the list of hungarian folk tales?" and then i realize how they come from similar cultural origins and used to be part one of kingdom/empire before things went haywire....yeah.
No, Germany and Hungary was never part of a same empire. Altough at the begining of the 15th century we had the same king, the countries were never united. On the other hand we were in a monarchy with Austria.
There is no such a thing as German tale. There a Bavarian, Saxon etc. tales.
I'm starting to see a pattern.
Wow elder daughters get captivated and youngest gets married wow what a justice. .. 😑
As I agree the ending doesn't have a fair ending the reason could be that they are the older daughters and they know more as to not escape during the night, in the story it clearly shows how the youngest daughter knows less and is guided by the more mature sisters
the elder daughters were maybe old enough to know what they were getting into while the young one was still a child? ( you got married even in child age back then btw )
She married a shepard
That sound's like punishment enough
@@walleras but the Shepherd was hot and intelligent though lol😂
@@moonlight3589 And dirt poor
I remember watching these when I was 12. Probably started watching these tales in 2018
Wait a minute. I have a book from my childhood which contains this story and there is no witch and broom and ointment and things like these in that. That version goes like this: there were three young man trying to find out where the girls are going every night. However, two of the three man felt asleep before getting a chance to see where they are going, because the girls gave them alcohol. Only the third one didn't fall asleep since he put a sponge under his mouth and poured the wine into it.
These stories are thousands of years old, they changed all the time as new versions where invented. It's how stories evolve over time, and how they stay alive.
The drawings/ art style are getting better
What a crime, being a free woman
they were most likely young children / teens tho...
but old enough to get married it seems... Oh well
krisanthemum H.
While it's okay to be free, abusing that isn't right. Freaking dancing in what seems to be hell definitely isn't a good idea XD
Different time period. It was most likely written when witchcraft and women were both very misunderstood and taboo.
@@sharkstriker1 I agree, but if they had freedom they should not have used it to dance with devils. What I don't understand is why the youngest didn't get punished. That's just the way life works, do the crime pay the time
I like how the Shepherd is drawn. He's a cutie úwù
This is a version of the 12 princesses story.😊 I've noticed 3 is a very common them in the Hungarian tales.
I love the designs of the princesses! They're my favorite of these Hungarian Folktales.
I don't 😢😢😢
OK from my understanding is that the 2 older sisters got in trouble because they lost their virginity to "he devils" (aka they dropped their spoon/fork) but the youngest didn't.
Basically this story says that 3 chicks would sneak out at night, have some drinks, go clubbing at night with some dudes, two of them got laid, and when they were caught, the youngest was married off to some guy because not only did she not sleep around, she was obviously hesitant about the whole thing... and the older ones were locked in their room at night so they couldn't go sleeping around anymore.... is this accurate? Lol.
Princess: welp I feel like clubbing
Princess: *TURNING UP- ON A TUSEDAY!*
I dont know why I always end up watching these folk tales at midnight
That ending was epic though
And here is the evidence *_Your majesty_*
Theres a huge role of unfair favoritism at play here dont you think??!??
So the reason the youngest wasn't punished was because she came clean unlike her sisters but is there any evidence that the youngest never wanted to join her sisters in the first place? She seemed very worried the whole time like she was scared of getting caught, a lot of people are nervous about that when they do something bad for the first time. and when they reached the palace to dance with the devils, she looks like she's cowering.
I heard somewhere that the reason why she got away free because she admitted that what she and her sisters is true while the sisters denied, despite the evidence presented to the king.
she's simply blond and is the youngest.
I'll be honest I thought he'd be more angry that they were dancing with devils
I really like the design of the 3 princesses :)
I love folk tale animations so much 😊❤
your tales never fail to amaze me!
Thia channel is my bedtime stories. Love the music and narator’s voice
This reminds me of a fairytale from my childhood, instead of 3 daughters the king had like 12 daughters and the same thing with the shoes happened. They didn’t go into silver or gold forests tho, they only ran away into a forest and danced the night away, a shepherd did follow them and he married the eldest since she knew he was following them from the beginning and was the only one to admit to it.
Moral of the story:
never trust your own daughters because they might go out partying with devils
This is basically a different version the the 12 dancing princesses, and my goodness a much darker version of it at that. The princesses were genuine bonafide witches in this one flying on brooms slathered in witch ointment (which according to folklore that I've read is made from the fat of murdered babies), dancing in hell with demons. There is honestly nothing redeemable about them as they seem to do all this willingly. Most versions I have heard of have the princesses usually naively tricked by monsters pretending to be handsome men or being controlled by them where they are in a trance like state and are unaware of the danger they are in. Both times they are at least semi innocent victims that have been mislead and need rescuing from their situation. Here they are active participants... also the youngest being nervous doesn't absolve her, I think she should have been locked up with her sisters.
Either that or they're dancing in a magical place that seems perfectly innocent-- certainly not _Hell_
I think the king realize the younger one was being pressured because the moment or sisters got locked up she fucken stopped
Abi Farrell I’m inclined to agree with you in this particular case, since the narrator clearly states in the end that the slipper-tearing stopped completely, which implies one of two things (or possibly both):
*(1) ::* The youngest princess only went along with her sisters’ nightly shenanigans out of pure peer pressure from her sisters, who more than likely bullied her into doing so (as evidenced by them laughing at her whenever she is frightened instead of showing any real concern for her), and/or
*(2) ::* The shepherd was a good enough influence on the youngest princess that she ultimately changed her ways and was redeemed, unlike her sisters who presumably refused to change their ways and thus could no longer be trusted to wander freely at night.
In either case, by all accounts, the king’s actions were a relatively fair and mild example of tough love that ultimately paid off, at least with respect to the youngest princess. And to be fair, that’s much more than what can be said for other versions of this story (which can range from the male lead refusing to marry the youngest princess because she had already danced with the demons, to the two older princesses (or even all three princesses in some versions) being convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake).
The youngest didn’t get punished because she snitched on them and others denied everything even though there was proof
He rubbed ointment on himself... and his stick.
The art is so imaginative in this I love it
Interesting, in the story I heard growing up (from my Hungarian grandmother) the youngest girl never went along to dance, and so she wasn't punished and married the shepherd.
I did /not/ expect the devils twist in the middle.
I noticed an interesting detail when it comes to magic items that come in sets of three in Hungarian stories.
If the items involve a male character they come in copper, then silver, then gold, and if they involve a female character they come in silver, then gold, then diamond.
Why is that?
It's not just a hungarian thing. Things in fairytales usually come in sets of three. There are usually also three allies, three events, three daughters... It's called "Rule of three" and it's everywhere in storytelling, you probably didn't even notice. But look it up and you'll see how many things use the number three even today.
The reason for that is because "Two is a pair, three is a pattern". It's a very ergonomic number in stories. Down to the structure of beginning, middle and end. Simply put, two things are often too little and four things tend to become redundant. So storytellers often settle on three, just enough not to bore the audience.
@@d4n737 I wasn’t referring to the number of items, I was referring to what they are made of.
Male character: copper, silver, gold
Female character: silver, gold, diamond
Because diamonds are girls best friend’s
Because diamonds are girls best friend’s 😂
why are these so interesting
out of 200 youtube videos and one of them is one of these stories i’m 100% watching one of these
like they’re relaxing
I can relate this to 12 dancing princess and why did the two sisters get locked in?
Mu mu Booger i don't know maybe because the guy wanted to marry her. In hungarian folk tales the youngest sisters are always the most innocent, prettiest girls... idk it's weird
Simple, he didn’t rat out the one he liked for he didn’t provide evidence she danced with the devils. He only provided evidence that she was along for the ride but didn’t indulge in hedonism, tongue in cheek meaning for “dancing with devils.”
I think they got locked each night so that they can't go to the devil palaces then...
Mu mu Booger I’m guessing the older sisters kind of forced their sister to come along, which is why when the shepherd snapped the branches and the sound was made, she was the only one was frighted. When he gave his tale, she was the only one who showed remorse for the deeds. So in turn she was let off.
Because they didn't show remorse for their actions and the king probably thought they were being a bad influence for their younger sister
Love the art style in this one :D
So basically, because of their father sheltering them and keeping them locked up, they rebelled and partied. So his response is to shelter and lock them up even further.
A+ parenting.
It never really said he was harsh with them. And it’s horrible of them to go out and dance with devils. He only kept them locked at night as a punishment. I don’t think the king was in the wrong
In fact, it's about the witch girls going into a trance, experiencing visions. The ointment (witch ointment, flying ointment) they put on themselves contains plants with hallucinogenic effects. It was believed that in such altered states of consciousness they could contact spirits, devils and fly to the other world where these beings dwell. As a Hungarian witch, I love these stories.
I would love to hear stories from a real Hungarian witch! Sounds amazing
As a what?!
So this is basically a Hungarian version of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
Cool.
Okay why did the two oldest get punished and the youngest get rewarded she was just as guilty as them
He didnt provide evidence that she danced with the devils as well thats why she was let off easy
potato lover moral of the story, sin away, as long as you don’t get caught.
@@alcyonae exactly lol
@Mullerornis yeah , also notice how the blonde ,blue eyed, pale youngest daughter is always the good one ?
@@hanim1001 ikr?....even when i was a kid, i noticed this too after reading lots of fables and folks tales from different countries.
The girls be out partying
Starry - P I’ve seen you on another vid
I love how these shorts are traditionally animated-it’s such a rare treat to see that these days! 😊
I’ll volunteer to dance with those handsome he-devils if the princesses can’t! I just love this story.
I really love this channel. No "I'll cut off your head if you don't find out where my daughters go."
Why is no one talking about how frickin strong that shepherd boy must be?
1:23 I just had to pause now LMAO what kind of dad letting a random man slept in the same room with his THREE daughters?! And a King who couldn't afford his daughters' footwear anymore... You're not a king anymore pfft... Not hating. Just.... This is too funny roflmao
I'm noticing that the blonde and light haired people are always seen as the good ones.
Such gorgeous animation! Thanks for uploading these videos!
I still think it would've been wiser of the king to punish all three princesses, since they were all seen by their spy at all 3 forbidden places . Otherwise, the only lesson learned by the princesses is that doing wrong is only acceptable if you're the youngest child . In other words, the king showed favoritism to the youngest by only punishing the 2 eldest .
Absolutely love the fact that i found this channel
I watched Grimm,s Fairy Tale Classics’ version years ago. In that one, they tapped the floor in their bedroom and stairs showed up vs them flying out with a witch. I like both.
I have to say that this is the best channel of Folk Tales I ever known, also it help me alot in study English lol
Does anyone know any channels that do folk tales like this?? I’ve been binge watching all of these and I want to see if there are any from other countries as well! I love the animation and the way he tells the stories!!
I will try to find some. Ik this was 4years ago tho. 😭
Thank you for making this TH-cam channel
Certainly the spiciest version of the twelve dancing princesses that I’ve ever heard
3:03 "The smallest prince" Good job there. XD
This is the best channel i’ve subscribed!!
Such beautifull arts and story telling
Oh I remember this on Nickelodeon! It was a story on Grimm's Fairy Tales!
I love the animation style to all of these❤😳❤
This reminds me of the 12 dancing princesses.
It's not as brutal as Germany but holy smoke that's some adult level story
How? Honestly this was pretty tame compared to some of the other ones
@@victorlolxd7347?
I noticed in these tales, a lot of times the enchanted items are made from gold, silver and diamond. It's a recurring theme. Makes sense that those would be very valuable materials.
I swear its like he's making up the dialogue as the movie goes along. Its so rushed!
I love it lmao!
This story reminds me of The Twelve Dancing Princesses or The Shoes That Were Worn to Pieces.
I'm glad I found this channel