The Royal Recorder told King Clode Tocko's story of the white deer, while adding a few liberties of his own in the storytelling. In response to the story, Clode said, “Pray God our deer is different from Tocko’s father’s deer (Thurber, 41).” Clode asked for the History of Sorcery book, in which the Royal Recorder spotted a report of maidens transforming into deer and back. Only in this record, every maiden could remember her name (Thurber, 43). The Recorder found another record of nine occasions where a deer would change into a woman because she rescued a wizard's life. Plus the wizard wanted to play a trick on men through the deer's enchantment (Thurber, 44). None of the deer on those nine occasions remembered their names. The spell would not be broken if the deer were loved. “But if love should fail them thrice, they would vanish in a trice (Thurber, 45-46),” the Recorder said.