A newborn peasant boy is said to marry the princess at the age of 14. The king catches wind of this prophecy and comes and buys him from his parents. The king then throws the infant boy into a stream in a box. Instead of drowning the infant boy floats safely to a mill where he is taken care of. The king finds the boy again and sends him to deliver a letter to the queen. However this sealed letter contains orders for the queen to have the boy killed. Along the way the boy finds shelter in a thieves den. The thieves take his letter and write a new one saying the boy will marry the princess. Upon arrival to the queen he is married. When the angry king returns he tasks the boy with journeying to Hell and retrieving three golden hairs of the devil in order to keep his marriage to the princess. When the boy arrives in Hell The devil's grandmother aids him. She plucks the hairs while the devil sleeps on her lap. During the journey back to the kingdom with the hairs the boy helps a ferryman and two gate keepers who in return bless the boy with mules bearing gold. When the king meets the boy he immediately enquires about the gold and where it came from. the boy cunningly tells the king the gold was strewn about on the shore of Hell. When the king goes there he is damned for life and the boy and the princess live happily ever after.
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