![]() ![]() ![]() Mother and daughter are very happy together, but years pass and the agreed-upon birthday is suddenly very near indeed. The Sun is apparently fine with that custody arrangement because he sends the woman a child called Uletka. If he sends a little girl to be her daughter, he can have the child back again when she is twelve years old. ![]() In this Hungarian fairy tale, taken from Ruth Manning-Sanders’ 1968 collection The Glass Man and the Golden Bird, a childless woman decides to strike a deal with the Sun himself. There are any number of fairy tales about people who desperately want children and go to extreme, unsafe and/or unethical lengths to get them, sometimes involving witches – ‘Tatterhood’, ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Black, Red, Gold’ to name a few. ![]()
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