2018-07-08

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2018-07-08 07:44 pm

The Emperor and the King, AKA the Pirate Princess, retelling

A year or two ago at Milk and Cookies [personal profile] dr_whom read aloud The Pirate Princess, a fairy tale written by Rabbi Nachman in 1815 with an impressively empowered female protagonist. I was recently reminded of this by discussion elsewhere on DW, and found the wikisource version of the story which calles it The King and the Emperor. I decided I would write a Good Parts retelling of the story, which I am now posting here:

In which the Princess outsmarts everybody in sight )