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Overview
After Pedro’s travelling companion disappears, washerwomen identified as witches mock his failure to protect the prince. One takes pity on him and directs him to an old palace. Inside, he finds only orange and lemon trees. In anger he plucks the fruit and throws it to the ground; each fallen orange or lemon becomes a prince or princess who had been under an enchantment.
His own prince is released during this action and chooses one restored princess as his companion. The group therefore consists of enchanted royal people rather than women first born from fruit, as in the collection’s Three Citrons of Love. The account does not describe the original casting of this spell or identify which particular fruit contained Pedro’s friend.
Origins & earliest records
Consiglieri Pedroso, Portuguese Folk-Tales, translated from the original manuscript by Henriqueta Monteiro, London: Elliot Stock for the Folk-Lore Society, 1882; tale VI, Pedro and the Prince, pp. 25–29. No individual narrator or collecting locality is identified.
Records & interpretation
The located 1882 English translation presents this figure within a complete collected narrative. Pedroso’s introductory pp. 1–2 describe the thirty published selections from his larger collection.
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Portuguese Folk-Tales VI: Pedro and the Prince, pp. 25–29
Complete narrative read through the concluding marriage or revival; no unlocated comparative interpretation is assigned to this figure.
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- Primary textPortuguese Folk-Tales, original 1882 edition scan and transcriptionResearch access: 2026-10-05
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