Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20141209213947/@comment-26116863-20150218025149

There's a story by Hans Christian Anderson, called "The Marsh King's Daughter". Here's an excerpt from it: ''A long time went by, but one day he saw a green stalk shooting up from the bottom of the pool. When it came to the surface it grew a leaf, which got broader and broader, and then a bud appeared. As the stork was flying by one morning, the bud opened in the strong sunbeams, and in the center of it lay a beautiful child, a baby girl who looked as fresh as if she had just come from her bath. So closely did the baby resemble the Princess from Egypt that the stork thought it was she, who had become a child again. But when he considered the matter he decided that this child who lay in the cup of a water lily must be the daughter of the Princess and the Marsh King.''

She gets adopted, and it even has people disguised as swans in it. That sounds like something that Cruella would know about, if she really does get her powers from wearing animal skins. Here's the full story if you want to read it .http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheMarshKingsDaughter_e.html. I can especially see the part where the princess gets sucked into the swamp by the Marsh King as something that would happen on OUAT. It is a longshot, but you never know.