The Green Fairy

A king went to war and left his weeping wife behind him. Two years after he had left, the queen gave birth to a handsome boy and she kept wondering what the king would say when he came back. When he did eventually return, nicely tanned and cheerful, she told him that a greenish translucent fairy had appeared, telling her that she should eat an apple from the tree in their royal garden and that she would give birth to a boy. And, lo and behold, the boy was born.
The king did not believe her and started shouting at her. Just at that moment, though, in the chamber where they were quarreling, a greenish translucent fairy appeared and informed the king that his queen was not lying: everything had happened exactly as she had said. And then the fairy disappeared. So the king fell on his knees and begged pardon from the queen. She was so shocked, however, by the fairy’s sudden appearance, that she never again regained her sanity. Both the young prince and her husband had to nurse the queen until the day of her death.