Panchatantra Mouse Maiden

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A sage transforms a baby mouse into a girl and raises her; when she comes of age he seeks the mightiest husband in the world. The Sun yields to the Cloud that veils him, the Cloud to the Wind, the Wind to the Mountain that stops it, the Mountain to the Mice that burrow through it — so the girl is given to a mouse, and gladly becomes a mouse again. Moral: each is happiest returned to its own nature. — Panchatantra (attrib. Vishnu Sharma)