Vanity - Week #22 Fox Tales

    Once upon a time, a princess so much beautiful so even the flowers embraced her trying to assimilate her prettiness. However, she couldn't perceive her own beauty. She always found a defect in her face or her body. Thinking there was something wrong with her nose, her legs was not long enough or her bosom was not big enough and even she hated her hands, for not being delicate enough. Achieving perfect beauty became her obsession. In her stubbornness, she ran into a demon, who secretly desired her beauty. His words sweetened her ears, fanning her vanity, promising what her ears wanted to hear. He would grant her the perfect grace. Nevertheless, she would have it under one condition: "She must never see herself in a mirror". She, blinded by his conceit, accepted the deal. Thus, she was the most beautiful girl of the whole kingdom. Her eternal beauty did not change with time; all women wanted her beauty and men were enchanted with the astonishment of her beauty. So much it was, that she began to feel curious about herself. Her vanity was stronger than herself. Being all alone, she thought about taking a peek just for a second to delight herself; but, she was disappointed to see that she had not changed at all. At that very moment the demon made his presence to claim which belonged to him. "You deceived me," she said. "Your beauty was always the same you were born with, what I changed was your way of thinking about yourself". The demon disappeared along with her beauty. Her body dried up and became cadaverous, cursed by her sin; she was confined to wandering through the forest hiding her monstrosity.