Frog and swans Drawing

Series "Coffee imaginations" "The Tale of the Evil Toad and the Princess. Long ago in a single kingdom lived a huge angry toad - it was a witch. Every hundred years it extinguished the sun. "Kwa" - and the sun went out. "Kwa", - and the stars disappeared. And then all living things died around. Without the sun, trees and flowers did not grow, birds died without sun. People found themselves in the dark, and only a quack and a quack wicked toad, as if laughing at the impotence of people, rejoiced, committing villainy. People began to go crazy from the darkness and toad-like croaking. And then the king who ruled those lands could not stand and gave his wicked witch to his most beautiful daughter. The toad swallowed the princess and returned the sun to the people. And the unfortunate king soon died of grief and longing. This went on for many, many years, people already did not remember when it started. And one day, when the century had passed again, the toad extinguished the sun. The world plunged into the mist. At that time the good king ruled, he loved his people very much, but also loved his only daughter. She was only seventeen years old, and she was very kind and beautiful. Not only did the King love her, but all the people in the kingdom. The princess had long golden hair, she sparkled like rays, and the princess had a gift - she could make beautiful sounds, like birds from the garden, no one else could do so in the whole kingdom. And three days later, as the sun disappeared, the princess came to her father and said: "Father, I know the history of our people, I know that this has happened many, many years and I will have to give my life for the sake of others. I'm ready to do it. " The king embraced his daughter and cried. But he could not change anything, because the evil was stronger. The princess went out of the city gates, and the toad grabbed and swallowed it. She woke up in the cold stomach of the monster, rose to her feet, looked around, and around the darkness began to dissipate - light from somewhere poured. The princess looks, and her hair glows like the sun shines. Suddenly she wanted to sing. A beautiful song poured itself. The princess sang louder and louder, and her golden curls shone brighter and brighter. A giant toad sits, and somehow not at ease it became - scary. Ill with her stomach and a giant, the toad's back was combed. The toad wanted to crawl away, but its paws did not move - they were petrified. Disgusting mounds on his back began to burst and flew from there a hundred white swans. They were souls swallowed by a toad, girls, they became free. And the toad itself was petrified. People ran out of town and only watched the beautiful white birds circling and circling. And at the very top of the head of the petrified toad is a living and unharmed princess, and her hair glows like the sun. And then the king rejoiced, people rejoiced, the whole world rejoiced over what had become light, for that good overtook the evil. And the unusual gift of the princess turned out to be a gift of singing. No one had ever before before, except birds, could sing. The princess taught people singing and people in gratitude to her built a snow-white palace on the very top of the toad mountain. And since that time in that kingdom the sun shines brightly and beautiful songs pour down to the heavens, because courage, love and beauty conquer any dark power. Because the sun sometimes has to descend into the deepest dungeons to shine even brighter." Iryna Lialko