Não Me Cortes O Cabelo Que Meu Pai Me Penteou

Não Me Cortes O Cabelo Que Meu Pai Me Penteou is a collage of two traditional tales present in the anthology of Traditional Portuguese Tales organized by Carlos de Oliveira and José Gomes Ferreira The first with the same name and the second called A Dona Maria The starting situation is one of extreme cruelty typical of traditional tales A mother kills her own daughter who is then reborn as a ghost to not marry the prince