Maiden

Stories tagged Maiden:

• The Cat-Maiden Jul 16, 2025

  

  A young man once fell deeply in love with his pet cat. The cat was beautiful, graceful, and affectionate, and the man loved her so much that he wished she could be human so he could marry her.

  The man prayed daily to Venus, the goddess of love, begging her to transform his beloved cat into a woman. Venus, moved by the man’s devotion, decided to grant his wish.

• The Story of the Weaving Maiden Jan 21, 2025

  

  In the peaceful village of Thuan An, nestled between emerald rice fields and bamboo groves where the morning mist danced like spirits among the leaves, lived a young woman named Linh whose skill with the loom was legendary throughout the province. Her fingers moved with such grace and precision that people said she must have learned her craft from the fairies themselves.

  Linh lived in a modest house with her widowed mother, Bà Thu, who had taught her daughter everything she knew about the ancient art of weaving. Their home was filled with the gentle sounds of the loom—the rhythmic click-clack of the shuttle, the soft whisper of threads being pulled taut, and the quiet humming that Linh did while she worked, as if singing lullabies to the cloth she was creating.