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* BewitchedAmphibians: The VainSorceress gets her comeuppance at the end when she is turned into a laidly toad.
* CurseEscapeClause When the VainSorceress turns Princess Margaret into a monster, she specifies that Margaret will never be herself again "until Childe Wynd, the King's own son, comes to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee".
* DamselInDistress: Princess Margaret's is transformed and controlled by the stepmother's magic, and it is up to Margaret's brother, Childe Wynd, to save her.
* CurseEscapeClause When the VainSorceress turns Princess Margaret into a monster, she specifies that Margaret will never be herself again "until Childe Wynd, the King's own son, comes to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee".
* DamselInDistress: Princess Margaret's is transformed and controlled by the stepmother's magic, and it is up to Margaret's brother, Childe Wynd, to save her.
* GoodPrincessEvilQueen: The new queen is a witch who is envious of her stepdaughter's beauty and casts a spell to turn the princess into the titular dragon.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Margaret is transformed into a "laidly worm", a colossal monstrous serpent that lurks in a cave and terrorizes the countryside
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Margaret is transformed into a "laidly worm", a colossal monstrous serpent that lurks in a cave and terrorizes the countrysidecountryside.
* OurImpsAreDifferent: When she catches news that Childe Wynd and his companions are returning home, the queen sends out her imp familiars to sink or wreck their ship, although they can do nothing against the rowan wood making it up.
* OurImpsAreDifferent: When she catches news that Childe Wynd and his companions are returning home, the queen sends out her imp familiars to sink or wreck their ship, although they can do nothing against the rowan wood making it up.
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* TrueLovesKiss: A rare example of this occurring in a medieval story, instead of a modern retelling, and with the twist that the love is fraternal -- in order for her curse to be broken, Margaret needs three kisses form her brother.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The protagonists' father drops out of the story completely after marrying the WickedStepmother.
* WickedStepmother: After the king remarries, the new queen, out of jealousy at her beauty, turns her stepdaughter into a dragon.
* WickedStepmother: After the king remarries, the new queen, out of jealousy at her beauty, turns her stepdaughter into a dragon.
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* BeautyToBeast: Both transformations befall beautiful women in conflict over the always-contentious "FairestOfThemAll" title.
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* BeautyToBeast: Both transformations befall beautiful women in conflict over the always-contentious "FairestOfThemAll" title. The queen transforms Margaret into a monstrous serpent, and is at the end herself transformed into a hideous toad.
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* MagicKiss: Three of them to turn Margaret back into herself.
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings 33 soldiers with him on his quest back home, and this is how the spell-casting is described:
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings 33 soldiers with him on his quest back home, and this is how the spell-casting is described:
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* MagicKiss: Three of them kisses from her bother are needed to break the witch-queen's curse and turn Margaret back into herself.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Margaret is transformed into a "laidly worm", a colossal monstrous serpent that lurks in a cave and terrorizes the countryside
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings33 thirty-three soldiers with him on his quest back home, and this is how the spell-casting is described:described as being repeated in multiples of three.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Margaret is transformed into a "laidly worm", a colossal monstrous serpent that lurks in a cave and terrorizes the countryside
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Rowan wood counters magic. A rowan boat cannot be affected by magic, and the touch of rowan defeats the witch at the end.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Margaret becomes a dragon, and the stepmother queen becomes a toad.
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* ForcedTransformation: Margaret becomes a dragon, and the stepmother queen becomes a toad.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thelaidlywormofspindlestonheugh.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Illustration by John D. Batten]]
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Borrowed shall ye never be.''\\
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Borrowed shall ye never be.''\\
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Won never shall I be.''\\
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Won never shall I be.''\\
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''The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh'' is a {{Ballad}} collected by Creator/JosephJacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. The story originates from Northumbria, a region that is now partly England and partly Scotland.
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''The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh'' is a {{Ballad}} FairyTale collected by Creator/JosephJacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. The story originates from Northumbria, a region that is now partly England and partly Scotland.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Rowan wood counters magic.magic.
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Until the world comes to an end, \\
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Until the world comes to an end, \\end,\\
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The tale can be found online [[https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft34.htm here]] and [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=22&tale=622 here]].
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->''I weird ye to be a laidly worm\\
And borrowed shall ye never be\\
Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son \\
Comes to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee,\\
Until the world comes to an end, \\
Borrowed shall ye never be.''\\
''The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh'' is a {{Ballad}} collected by Creator/JosephJacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. The story originates from Northumbria, a region that is now partly England and partly Scotland.
The story begins with two royal siblings, Childe Wynd and Margaret. While the prince is out seeking his fortune, the king takes a new wife, a beautiful but evil sorceress. In her envy of Princess Margaret's beauty, the witch-queen changes the princess into a loathsome dragon (the "laidly worm" of the title). In her monstrous form, Margaret is chased out of the castle to Spindleston Heugh.
Consulting a wizard, the locals feed the dragon seven cows per day until they contact Childe Wynd. With 33 of this best men, Wynd vows to rescue his sister and punish the evil queen, sailing home on a boat of rowan wood. The queen sends her henchman to sabotage the voyage, but they find that magic has no affect on rowan wood. So she deploys the navy to fight them, and uses her magic to send Margaret on the rampage.
Childe Wynd and his men out-maneuver the soldiers and dragon, and once the spell subsides, Childe Wynd approaches the dragon. He hears his sister's own voice from within the beast:
->''O, quit your sword, unbend your bow,\\
And give me kisses three;\\
For though I am a poisonous worm,\\
No harm I'll do to thee.\\
O, quit your sword, unbend your bow,\\
And give me kisses three;\\
If I'm not won ere set of sun,\\
Won never shall I be.''\\
He gives the monster three kisses and she changes back into Princess Margaret. Armed with a branch of a rowan tree, the siblings return to the castle. With one touch of the branch, the witch queen shrivels up and turns into a hideous toad. She hops away, allowing Childe Wynd to take his place as king.
!!"The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" contains examples of:
* BalefulPolymorph: Margaret becomes a dragon, and the stepmother queen becomes a toad.
* BeautyToBeast: Both transformations befall beautiful women in conflict over the always-contentious "FairestOfThemAll" title.
* FairestOfThemAll: Much like the stepmother queen in "Literature/SnowWhite", the villainess hates her stepchild because the younger woman's beauty exceeds her own.
* MagicKiss: Three of them to turn Margaret back into herself.
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings 33 soldiers with him on his quest back home, and this is how the spell-casting is described:
-->''The queen, who was a noted witch, stole down to a lonely dungeon wherein she did her magic and with spells three times three, and with passes nine times nine she cast Princess Margaret under her spell.''
* WeaksauceWeakness: Rowan wood counters magic.
And borrowed shall ye never be\\
Until Childe Wynd, the King's own son \\
Comes to the Heugh and thrice kiss thee,\\
Until the world comes to an end, \\
Borrowed shall ye never be.''\\
''The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh'' is a {{Ballad}} collected by Creator/JosephJacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. The story originates from Northumbria, a region that is now partly England and partly Scotland.
The story begins with two royal siblings, Childe Wynd and Margaret. While the prince is out seeking his fortune, the king takes a new wife, a beautiful but evil sorceress. In her envy of Princess Margaret's beauty, the witch-queen changes the princess into a loathsome dragon (the "laidly worm" of the title). In her monstrous form, Margaret is chased out of the castle to Spindleston Heugh.
Consulting a wizard, the locals feed the dragon seven cows per day until they contact Childe Wynd. With 33 of this best men, Wynd vows to rescue his sister and punish the evil queen, sailing home on a boat of rowan wood. The queen sends her henchman to sabotage the voyage, but they find that magic has no affect on rowan wood. So she deploys the navy to fight them, and uses her magic to send Margaret on the rampage.
Childe Wynd and his men out-maneuver the soldiers and dragon, and once the spell subsides, Childe Wynd approaches the dragon. He hears his sister's own voice from within the beast:
->''O, quit your sword, unbend your bow,\\
And give me kisses three;\\
For though I am a poisonous worm,\\
No harm I'll do to thee.\\
O, quit your sword, unbend your bow,\\
And give me kisses three;\\
If I'm not won ere set of sun,\\
Won never shall I be.''\\
He gives the monster three kisses and she changes back into Princess Margaret. Armed with a branch of a rowan tree, the siblings return to the castle. With one touch of the branch, the witch queen shrivels up and turns into a hideous toad. She hops away, allowing Childe Wynd to take his place as king.
!!"The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" contains examples of:
* BalefulPolymorph: Margaret becomes a dragon, and the stepmother queen becomes a toad.
* BeautyToBeast: Both transformations befall beautiful women in conflict over the always-contentious "FairestOfThemAll" title.
* FairestOfThemAll: Much like the stepmother queen in "Literature/SnowWhite", the villainess hates her stepchild because the younger woman's beauty exceeds her own.
* MagicKiss: Three of them to turn Margaret back into herself.
* RuleOfThree: Three kisses disenchant Margaret, but multiples of three also appear throughout. Childe Wynd brings 33 soldiers with him on his quest back home, and this is how the spell-casting is described:
-->''The queen, who was a noted witch, stole down to a lonely dungeon wherein she did her magic and with spells three times three, and with passes nine times nine she cast Princess Margaret under her spell.''
* WeaksauceWeakness: Rowan wood counters magic.
