Everyone jeered at her on account of her ugliness: but she was not really ugly, as she was born with two skins and at birth her mother was made to promise that she should remove the ugly skin until a certain time arrived that only during the night, and that she must put it again before dawn.
Now the King's head wife knew this, and was very fearful that the King should find it out and fall in love with the beggar's daughter: so she went to a spiritual man and offered him money to make a potion that will make the King forget completely that the beggars daughter was his wife.
The spiritual man finally consented to carry out the wicked act after much haggling over the price. He made up some medicine which the head wife mixed with the King's food.
For some months the charm had a strong effect on the King, it made the King forget totally about the beggar's daughter, the King use to pass very close to her without recognising her in any way.