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Updated: June 12, 2025
The cook answered, 'I cooked it. But the King said, 'That's not true, for it was quite different and much better soup than you have ever cooked. Then the cook said, 'I must confess; I did not cook the soup; the Many-furred Creature did. 'Let her be brought before me, said the King. When the Many-furred Creature came, the King asked her who she was.
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The cook was terrified when he heard the command, and said to the Many-furred Creature, 'You must have let a hair fall into the soup, and if you have you deserve a good beating! When he came before the King, the King asked who had cooked the soup.
After a time there was another feast, and the Many-furred Creature begged the cook as at the last one to let her go and look on. He answered, 'Yes, but come back again in half-an-hour and cook the King the bread-soup that he likes so much. So she ran away to her little room, washed herself quickly, took out of the nut the dress as silver as the moon and put it on.
When the King had a feast for the third time, things did not turn out quite the same as at the other two. The cook said, 'You must be a witch, Many-furred Creature, for you always put something in the soup, so that it is much better and tastes nicer to the King than any that I cook. But because she begged hard, he let her go up for the usual time.
She had run to her little room and had quickly taken off her dress, made her face and hands black, put on the fur cloak, and was once more the Many-furred Creature.
There they showed her a tiny room under the stairs, where no daylight came, and said to her, 'Many-furred Creature, you can live and sleep here. Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water, poked the fire, washed vegetables, plucked fowls, swept up the ashes, and did all the dirty work. So the Many-furred Creature lived for a long time in great poverty.
She ran to her little room and changed herself once more into the Many-furred Creature, and went into the kitchen to cook the bread-soup. When the cook was upstairs, she fetched the golden spinning-wheel and put it in the dish so that the soup was poured over it. It was brought to the King, who ate it, and liked it as much as the last time.
The King said to the huntsmen, 'See what sort of a wild beast is in there. The huntsmen went in, and then came back and said, 'In the hollow tree there lies a wonderful animal that we don't know, and we have never seen one like it; its skin is made of a thousand pieces of fur; but it is lying down asleep. The King said, 'See if you can catch it alive, and then fasten it to the cart, and we will take it with us. When the huntsmen seized the maiden, she awoke and was frightened, and cried out to them, 'I am a poor child, forsaken by father and mother; take pity on me, and let me go with you. Then they said to her, 'Many-furred Creature, you can work in the kitchen; come with us and sweep the ashes together. So they put her in the cart and they went back to the palace.
When she came into the kitchen and was setting about her work of sweeping the ashes together, the cook said to her, 'Let that wait till to-morrow, and just cook the King's soup for me; I want to have a little peep at the company upstairs; but be sure that you do not let a hair fall into it, otherwise you will get nothing to eat in future! So the cook went away, and the Many-furred Creature cooked the soup for the King.
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