 Things must take place as the book decrees; but it transpires that the pig marrying Flora is in fact a king under a spell and can return to human form by night – if Flora will have faith in him, the spell can be broken.Flora is deceived by an old woman – in fact the witch who has enchanted the pig – into acting to break the spell more quickly, but this is a ruse which enables the witch to get hold of the pig and carry him off to marry her own daughter, Adelaide.With the help of the North Wind, the Moon and the Sun, Flora tracks down the pig to beyond the Milky Way, where he is kept in a drugged stupor by the witch and Adelaide.