History Literature / TheFeatherOfFinistTheFalcon

When she reached the Tsardom of Finist's new bride, she found a servant failing to wash the blood out of Finist's shirt. Her own tears of sorrow washed it clean, which attracted the attention of the bride. The daughter was able to get employment in the kitchen, but even then she could not catch Finist's eye. The bride, who was greedy and somewhat cruel, offered to trade her three nights to sit up with him, each bought with one of the three trinkets. The daughter wept and begged over Finist's bedside, but the bribe had put an enchanted pin in Finist's hair so he would not wake. On the third night, despairing, she leaned over to kiss him, removing the pin for fear it might hurt him; he woke and was joyfully reunited with his beloved.

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* TheQuest: The daughter's, for Finist

A merchant goes to the fair and asks his daughters what they want. The older two, plain, hard-hearted, and caring only for finery, ask for rich gifts; the beautiful, kind-hearted youngest, a good housekeeper, asked for a red flower. Twice he forgot it entirely, while getting the sister's gifts, but the third time, he found he could not buy one anywhere in the fair. Finally, he rode toward home, and met an old man who had one, and kept it for the bride of his son, Finist the Falcon. The merchant got it only on condition that she marry his son.

When the daughter got the flower, she agreed that if he wooed her, Finist would win her. That night, a falcon flew to her room and transformed into a handsome prince. He gave her a feather of his, which would conjure what she wished. The next day, as her sisters went to Mass in their finery, she waited until they were gone and conjured up a splendid coach and fine attire for herself, and went herself. Everyone was dazzled, but she forgot to take a diamond ornament out, and her sisters told their father that she had a secret lover, who gave her it. When he did not listen, they gave their sister a sleeping potion, and put knives in the window so that the falcon was badly injured.

The next morning, she saw the blood, and then remembered hearing the words in her sleep. She has the shoes and staves made and sets out to search for him. During her wanderings, she met three old women who told her Finist was to marry, and she might reach him in time for the wedding feast, and sent her onward.

When she reaches the land, she finds a servant trying to wash the blood out of Finist's shirt from the knives, and takes it from her, weeping over it, which makes it white again. The bride wants to see such a woman. For three nights, the daughter bribed her with the things the old women had given her, to let her stay in Finist's bedchamber, but the bride had put an enchanted pin in his hair to keep him from waking. The third night, she knocks it loose, and he wakes.

The next day, Finist summons all the court and asks whether he should marry the woman who bought him or the woman who sold him, and they all agreed that he should marry the woman who bought him. So he and the daughter married.

* RuleOfThree: Three sisters, three gifts, three attempts to wake him

'''''The Feather of Finist the Falcon''''' (''Пёрышко Финиста ясна сокола'') is a Russian FairyTale collected by Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki'' (''Народные Русские Сказки'').

'''''The Feather of Finist the Falcon''''' (Пёрышко Финиста ясна сокола) is a Russian FairyTale collected by Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki'' (Народные Русские Сказки).

'''''The Feather of Finist the Falcon''''' is a Russian FairyTale collected by Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon, Literature/{{Pintosmalto}}, Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle, and Literature/TheBlueMountains -- and the opening of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. JosephaSherman retold it as ''Literature/TheShiningFalcon''.

'''''The Feather of Finist The Falcon''''' is a Russian FairyTale collected by Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''.

!!Tropes included

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon, Literature/{{Pintosmalto}}, Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle, and Literature/TheBlueMountains -- and the opening of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. JosephaSherman retold it as ''TheShiningFalcon''.

'''''The Feather of Finist The Falcon''''' is a Russian FairyTale collected by AlexanderAfanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* ItWasAGift
* TheQuest
* RuleOfThree
* TextileWorkIsFeminine
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* YoungestChildWins
* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon, Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle, and Literature/TheBlueMountains -- and the opening of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''. JosephaSherman retold it as ''TheShiningFalcon''.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon, Literature/SoriaMoriaCastle, and Literature/TheBlueMountains. JosephaSherman retold it as ''TheShiningFalcon''.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon. JosephaSherman retold it as ''TheShiningFalcon''.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon. JosephaSherman retold it as ''Literature/TheShiningFalcon''.

It is Aarne–Thompson type 432, the prince as bird. Compare Literature/EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon.

-->''"My beautiful dearest," he cried, "hast thou ceased so soon to love me? Never shalt thou see me again unless thou searchest through three times nine countries, to the thirtieth Tsardom, and thou shalt first wear through three pairs of iron shoes, and break in pieces three iron staves, and gnaw away three holy church-loaves of stone. Only then shalt thou find thy lover, Finist the Falcon!"''

The next morning, she saw the blood, and then remembered hearing the words in her sleep. She has the shoes and staves made and sets out to search for him. During her wanderings, she met an old woman who told her Finist was to marry, and she might reach him in time for the wedding feast.