The Girl and the Rabbit together ran east and south and east again, the Stepmother hot on their heels. ‘You wanted that key so badly?’ the Stepmother shouted. ‘Very well! Lose it, and be turned into statues!’ For of course, she was also a witch.

The Rabbit was so surprised he tripped, and the key flew beneath a mushroom!

The Girl and the Rabbit were at once frozen into place. But the Fairy of a nearby pond took pity on them. She could not break the Stepmother’s curse herself, but changed it. If someone finds the key and places it in the Rabbit’s paw, the curse shall break. Sun and moon, winter and summer, in silence they wait. Solve the riddle, find the key,