Fitcher’s Bird: Seriously, Don’t Go in the Basement
A father and his three daughters live in poverty in the countryside. One day, a man shows up to request the first daughter for his wife. She is given a golden egg that she must never, ever drop or dreadful things will happen and told not to go into the basement. The girl goes into the basement, drops the egg. She disappears.
The next year, he comes back for the second daughter. She, too, drops the egg, and disappears. The man returns, asking for the third daughter. When the two reach their destination, the groom tells her to prepare for their wedding, but is given the egg and told not to go into the basement. Which, of course, she does as soon as he leaves. There she sees the heads of her sisters hanging on hooks amidst a gory torture chamber.
