


As time goes by, Otto grows up and stops telling the story of the sisters, though he occasionally plays the harmonica when he feels afraid. The path leads him directly to a search party that is looking for him.Īlthough he tells his parents about the three sisters and the harmonica, they insist that the harmonica is not magical. When he plays the harmonica, he feels his name being called and a path through the forest opening for him. Otto wakes up the next morning, alone in the forest with no book. The girls tell him that his fate will always tie him to the people who have played the harmonica before him and those who will play it afterward. Each sister plays a short tune, which places her spirit inside the harmonica. Otto stops reading the book because the pages end, and he tries to help the girls escape. First, their spirits must enter a woodwind instrument to be carried away from the forest second, they must save a soul about to die. They must remain in the forest unless two conditions are fulfilled. The witch is angry that the sisters want to leave, so she curses them. As the years pass, the old king dies, and the new king, the girls’ younger brother, learns of his three older sisters’ existence and invites them to his coronation.

The sisters have magically beautiful voices, and they long to escape the witch’s cottage and have a happy family life. In the story, the three sisters grow up doing household chores for the witch, who is indifferent to them. When he wakes up, he finds himself with Eins, Zwei and Drei, who ask him to read them their own story. He trips and falls, knocking himself unconscious. During a game of hide-and-seek, Otto pauses to read a storybook about three lost princesses named Eins, Zwei and Drei, who are cast out by their father and raised by a witch in the forest.
