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Twenty Jataka Tales, by Noor InayatThe Golden Feathers:
A father wants to provide a good life for his family so he tells them he is going to go out and seek riches to make their lives more comfortable. When he sets out he enters a forrest late at night and is confronted with a fairy, who when hearing his plan, turns him into a golden goose. The father seeing this decides he will fly to his family every so often to give them a feather to sell. The wife gets greedy one time and decides to pluck all of the goose's feathers. The feathers turn to normal white feathers however because the fairy gave the goose a charm that they would do that if they were taken from him. The goose grows back white feathers and flies to the forrest to live the rest of his life happy.
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