Related to "The Swan Maiden" that we had read, I found an another fairy tale that is also about the story of swans from YouTube, and I compared that clip wtih the version that we read for the class.
In the clip, the king married to a witch, and she transformed the princes to the whild swans after she got married to the king, and those wild swans flew away from the castle for escaping from that witch. So far, the difference between two version is: the swans were transformed from the male charaters in the clip, and the swans that we read in our book is transformed from the female characters. After those wild swans flew away from the castle, the only one sister of those princes who is remainded in the human form ran after them and looking for them and to get them back to the castle. At this point, there is a similarity between the two versions: in both version that is someone waiting for the swans to return. And in the both versions, the swans were able to transform back to the human form at sometime point; the females swans in the book we read were able to transform back to the human form after they took their swan feather dress off, and they can do it at anytime they desired , and the princes swans can only and have to return to the human form after the sunset.
The ending of the version that we read for the class is, the peasent told his wife (who is transformed from swan) how he had won her (which is, he stole her swan feather dress), and then as soon as she had her dress back from him, she flew away for forever. And the ending of the clip, that princess made soem dresses of with the special magical plant and wearing them to her brother and broke the curse, and that witch dead after her curse broke.
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