A certain king and queen, who lived in a wonderful land more years ago than anyone can count, had three daughters, all of whom were beautiful, while the youngest, called Psyche, was the loveliest maiden that the people of the country had ever seen.

So fair was she that her father’s subjects declared she was fairer than Aphrodite herself. This made the queen of love —who, like others among the Shining Ones, could sometimes be very jealous— so angry that she decided poor Psyche must be punished for daring to become her rival. So, calling her son Cupid to her side, she told him to go at once in search of the maiden who was called Psyche, and, by wounding her with some magical arrows Aphrodite had given him, make her fall in love with the first hunchback or beggar that she met.

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📚 Source: Once Upon A Time: Children’s Stories From The Classics (1920?) by Blanche Winder (1866-1930).