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There is a riddle that a young King came up with in order to marry a very clever Princess. If a man can come up with a riddle that the Princess cannot guess, then he will have her hand in marriage. However, if she guesses the answer within three…

The actual oval portrait that takes the life of the wife, because the painter she marries is as much in love with this painting as he is with her. The wife ends up dying by the time he completes the painting.