Hi everyone,
A recent question to the list about a line at the beginning of fairy tales reminded me of this. I have a story written down by my grandmother (the daughter of a Bukovina watch mender). I do not recognise any part of it, but wondered if she might have heard something similar from her father. Her mother had died when she was very young.
Does anyone remember a story about a watchmaker called Orloff/Orlaff who goes into a valley enchanted by a witch to find a beautiful woman called Kareen? The watchmaker is helped along the way by a mouse, and bargains with the witch that if he can mend her clock and make it chime, he can take the woman with him. At the end the mouse turns into a horse.
Of course my grandmother may have made up all of this, but my mother, who she wrote it down for in the 1950s, thinks not.
Best wishes to all,
Eleanor (Scotland)
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