Frederick's kindness to an old man while hunting is repaid by his being told where to find a cloak that will take him anyplace and a gold ball that will grant whomever swallows it gold daily. After getting them, he sprains his ankle while meeting the beautiful Lisabeth. She tends him at her home, but her "mother", a witch, forces her to use magic to steal them by having him cough up the ball then leaving with him and the cloak and taking it. Stranded in the desert and determined to avenge himself especially since he loved Lisabeth, Frederick stumbles upon two fields of cabbages: one which turns people into donkeys and one which turns them back.
Frederick's kindness to an old man while hunting is repaid by his being told where to find a cloak that will take him anyplace and a gold ball that will grant whomever swallows it gold daily. After getting them, he sprains his ankle while meeting the beautiful Lisabeth. She tends him at her home, but her "mother", a witch, forces her to use magic to steal them by having him cough up the ball then leaving with him and the cloak and taking it. Stranded in the desert and determined to avenge himself especially since he loved Lisabeth, Frederick stumbles upon two fields of cabbages: one which turns people into donkeys and one which turns them back.
