Like all stories, this one begins with… once upon a time there was a family with three boys. One day, the eldest son decided to go to the forest to cut wood to help his parents. Mom put a muffin and a bottle of wine in her backpack to have on the road. As soon as he reached the forest, the boy met an old man who asked him to share the food with him, but the boy refused. It seems that the little man was some kind of wizard, because the boy had a very bad time chopping wood that day. Sometimes the ax fell from his hand, sometimes the branches hit him, sometimes he tripped. The same thing happened to the middle boy the next day. After many pleas, the youngest boy also set off for the forest, but his mother gave him only an old loaf of bread in his backpack. Unlike his brothers, he shares his food with the sorcerer, so the old man encourages him to cut down an old tree, at the root of which he discovers a goose with golden feathers. Happy, he took the goose under his arm and started for the inn at the edge of the forest where he wanted to spend the night. As soon as they saw the bird, the innkeeper’s three daughters set their eyes on the beautiful feathers with the intention of stealing them, but the feathers were enchanted, and every time someone touched them, their hand stuck to the goose. And that’s how all three girls stayed trapped not for an hour, not for two hours, but for the whole night.

The next morning the boy took his goose and set off with it, not caring that the girls were attached to the bird with golden feathers. On the way, a priest and an assistant priest who were planning to help the girls also stuck to the goose. As they walked, they reached a large city, where reigned an emperor who had a daughter who was always sad. In vain the emperor had tried to bring all kinds of clowns to cheer her up… the girl was getting more and more angry. In the end, the emperor had promised the kingdom to whoever could make her smile. Seeing the group of people clinging to the goose, the girl began to laugh out loud. Although promises must be kept, the emperor subjected the boy to a few more tests before giving him the girl: to drink all the wine in the royal cellar, to eat a mountain of bread, to bring a ship that would also float on water, but also walk on land. With the help of the little man in the forest, the boy successfully passed all the tests and married the emperor’s daughter.