the sisters bake bread in the oven, while the third finds a coal and tries to enter the house, but someone blindfolds her and silences her with a hand. Despite the suddenness of the action, her assailant assures she has nothing to fear, and that if she comes with them quietly, her family shall be given riches. With no choice, the girl is taken to a coach and driven away to a large palace, furnished with jewels, dresses and extravagant furniture. The girl is served by a person named Pangano. That same night, she feels someone is in bed with her and calls for Pangano, who sees nothing and tells her to sleep. She spends her days at the palace, but begins to miss home, and asks Pangano to visit her family. The man agrees and prepares a selection of gifts for her family, but she has to keep quiet about her life at the palace, and she must return when she hears his whistle. Twice she visits her family, and twice she is bothered by her family's insistent questioning, to which she answers she will not come anymore if her family keeps pushing the subject. The third time, Pangano takes the girl to her sister's wedding, and takes the opportunity to sing a beautiful song on the guitar. While the man is distracted, the girl is given a firesource by her mother, t be used on her mysterious bedmate when she returns to the palace. It happens thus: the girl lights the source and sees that her bedmate is a handsome prince. The prince wakes up and, in a fury, commands Pangano, his servant, to go and come back with his wife's heart and eyes. Pangano takes his master's wife to the forest, but spares her, killing a dog in her place. She also orders a shepherd to guide the girl, who is pregnant, to a royal castle, where she is to be given lodge. The shepherd obeys the man's orders and leaves the princess with a queen and her daughters. The queen becomes fond of the girl and prepares her quarters, where she gives birth to a son with a golden navel. The queen pays her guest a visit and sees the child in the cradle, recognizing in the child the same golden navel as her own missing son had. Meanwhile, the prince and his servant Pangano enter