GC58VPX TBR's Grimm Tales#40: The Pink Flower
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: RubiconNomad, Bubbaraye @ | Hide Date: 07/13/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 57.831 W105° 31.983 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
         

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Cache hidden by Team Blue Rubicon's RubiconNomad and Bubbaraye. Caution: Cliff!

(If you are the first to find all the caches, please only take ONE FTF prize and leave the rest for the next person to enjoy! Happy caching!)

The Pink Flower

· This king and queen really want a kid, and an angel lets the queen know that she's finally about to get pregnant, plus her son will have the ability to wish for anything and get it.

· The royal cook knows that the child has magic powers, so he steals the boy from the queen's lap, smears her with blood, and accuses her of letting wild animals eat the child à la A Cry in the Dark. The queen is sent to a tower, where angels bring her food so that she doesn't starve to death.

· The cook raises the child in a secret place, but starts to fear his powers.

· He encourages the boy to wish himself a companion, so he wishes for a beautiful maiden to keep him company. They fall in love and are happy until the cook begins to feel fearful again.

· He tries to blackmail the maiden into killing the youth, but she refuses, and the youth turns the cook into a black poodle that has to eat live coals until it spits flames (that's a creative punishment for you).

· The boy returns home, and turns the maiden into a pink flower to keep with him.

· He checks on his mother in the tower, then enlists in the king's service as a huntsman.

· Plus, he wishes for plenty of deer so that everyone can feast on venison. Ain't that nice of 'im?

· Finally he reveals himself to his father, has his mother redeemed, and marries the maiden.

· The mother dies (we can only assume of malnourishment, because come on, angel food?) and the father soon after, and the cook is executed, too.

· So the survivors, at least, live happily ever after.

12/16/2018 By Croochie
Not sure if I found this. Will come back to be sure.

08/27/2018 By Back Country Horsemen
Pretty quick find but hard to reach so my huggle grabbed it.

07/20/2018 By geoguru1
Making a caching trip with Robespierre50 into the hills above Nederland to escape the heat. Sort of worked. Just 80s instead of high 90s. SL

07/20/2018 By robespierre50
Heading up Caribou Rd with geoguru1, escaping the heat and finding caches along the way. Trying to remember if this is the one that had some "gardening" in process nearby. sl thanks .

07/18/2018 By stew sleuth
We went for the obvious place first, even though we thought it might be on the other M spotted it before she reached it. Btw, we gave up on the geocache that was just before this one. Somethings just aren’t meant to be. We hadn’t wanted to park on the curve so backed into a driveway, with an abandoned looking fence at the top saying no trespassing. No sooner did we start hiking to higher ground, then at old vehicle came down the driveway so we had to leave

07/18/2018 By melelina
When I saw the train reading three I thought it was on the other side of the road. I decided to look for the easy spot first, luckily it was there. TFTC.