Once upon a time, in a remote kingdom beyond the mountains of the East, a prince whose beauty was such that charmed all the girls and ladies who were watching him. It was more beautiful than the same Narciso and there was no woman who does not look at him, which was not followed and loved him.
However, the prince was not satisfied with their appearance or with what it generates in women, because he realized that all loved him for his body of man and his penis, and not your spirit, which saddened him. He was madly in love the spirit of a girl who lived in the village, called Eloisa. But he dared not confess his love, and hid with her and to others their feelings, fearing that, like others, she did not love him for his spirit but your body and your penis. Sorry Prince wept inconsolably every night.
One evening he came up with a brilliant idea: he decided to flee the kingdom, far away to distant lands to seek the advice of a wise magician who lived across the mountains. That night he mounted his horse and fled the castle making it as fast as he could gallop. For seven days and seven nights toured relentlessly huge territories and long roads, crossing rivers and climbing mountains, until finally he found a small hut deep in the forest. Dismounted and knocked on the door. An old lady received him. It was she, Morgana, the sorceress who was looking for.
Prince greeted her with a gesture of reverence, knelt before her and kissed her hand. Morgana, wise old woman who lived alone in the deep woods, the long robes, asked that his visit was. He told about his great sadness, the terrible curse with which his body had been born male, hex inducing him not to amass her spirit, but by his penis. The wise Morgana, taking his hand, told him not to worry, that there was a remedy for that. The prince said the maiden whom he loved for his spirit, his Lady, was named Eloisa, but he feared that she would love him for his spirit but his penis, like the others. The witch, a gesture of calm in the face, he advised that it should be passed by a woman, so she did not see the body of man, and that if she loved him still dressed by his spirit, then it would be worthy. The prince accepted the offer and the witch gave him a magic powder, if necessary, which would give the appearance of a woman for three hours. Before the prince was, Morgan warned three times to take great care, because if being under the influence of magic dust was moistened with water, even if a single drop, would be transformed into a woman forever. The grateful prince dismissed Morgana, climbed onto his horse and returned to the kingdom.
From his room in the castle he wrote an anonymous letter to Eloisa love, and gave a messenger dressed as a man of the people, for that delivery. She, upon receipt, was fascinated and said the letter. So they began to write for months. She fell in love ever more with each new letter I read. Eloisa day, delighted in the words of Prince, but confused because he was to call her letters, and not knowing who he wrote, he asked whether it was male or female. He, evading the issue, replied that they must find, and both agreed to meet next to a huge lake called The Mirror of Heaven.
The prince, an hour before going to see if what she felt was really his spirit, to test it and see how much he was willing to go for their spirit, is sprinkled with pixie dust and instantly transformed into a beautiful maiden. Thus, if your Lady Eloisa really loved him for his spirit still love her even though she was in the body of a woman, but if you really loved him, I'd to love as he thought that was a woman.
The prince went to his appointment with women's appearance and when he saw approaching Eloisa, greeted her by saying, "I'm gonna write love letters." "You?" - She asked him scornfully - "Are you a woman?". The prince asked, "Do you see my body or my spirit you attend? What you've been in love? ". She thought it was a woman, denied his love and left him with a gesture of disgust.
Three hours had passed and the spell began to fade, and it was beautiful maiden, the prince became a beautiful man, revealed in their true body of a man. Eloisa, bewildered by so much beauty, asked him to forgive her, he was sorry, that actually if you love him, and he replied: "Do you love my spirit or my body?" And when she claimed to love his spirit, he sad, he said: "Not so, because if you had loved my spirit is still love in the body of a woman, because my spirit was always a prince. " He finished talking and, in the midst of his vexation, he took the magic dust that was left, I threw up again transformed into a woman and took to the waters of the lake, being transformed as well, a woman forever.
Legend has it that those who suffer from love and walk around the lake during the night, he saw a female figure who weeps, and is the transformed prince. It is believed that the wishes of love to be asked will be granted.
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By Sofia Tudela.
