Diamonds and Toads- The Elder Daughter by halieghnoart
"THERE was once upon a time a widow who had two daughters. The eldest was so much like her in the face and humor that whoever looked upon the daughter saw the mother. They were both so disagreeable and so proud that there was no living with them.....
"It would be a very fine sight indeed," said this ill-bred minx, "to see me go draw water."
"You shall go, hussy!" said the mother; "and this minute."
So away she went, but grumbling all the way, taking with her the best silver tankard in the house.
She was no sooner at the fountain than she saw coming out of the wood a lady most gloriously dressed, who came up to her, and asked to drink. This was, you must know, the very fairy who appeared to her sister, but now had taken the air and dress of a princess, to see how far this girl's rudeness would go.
"Am I come hither," said the proud, saucy one, "to serve you with water, pray? I suppose the silver tankard was brought purely for your ladyship, was it? However, you may drink out of it, if you have a fancy."
"You are not over and above mannerly," answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion. "Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad.""
- The Blue Fairy Book,Toads and Diamonds, Andrew Lang, 1889
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I loved this story as a kid, in the end the elder daughter went and lived the rest of her days in the woods, everyone having abandoned her. As a kid I thought it was a good punishment for being rude, as I get older the more cruel it seems. Moral of the story, don't be rude, but don't cast curses on other people, because that's rude as shit too.