In this story, two children are abandoned by their father after he remarries. During their travels, the younger brother drinks from a puddle and is changed into a sheep. The maiden then meets a fairy, gets special golden powers, and things go one part Cinderella and one part Jonah and the whale from there. Will there be a happily ever after?

Source: The Golden Maiden and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. G. Seklemian 1898

Narrator: Dustin Steichmann

Sound FX: Khasaut river by roumahum on freesound.org

Music: Աննա Վաչագանի Հովհաննիսյան  Մարալի Anna Vachagani Hovhannisyan  Marali by Anna-Blul- Hovhannisyan

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