Handmade Leather Notebook ‘The Seven Ravens’

Handmade Leather Notebook ‘The Seven Ravens’ Design by Magdalena Korzeniewska

This vintage notebook contains 200 pages (100 sheets) of unlined paper. The paper is handmade from recycled paper and pure cotton, giving it the texture of jute and linen. This paper is acid-free. You can write on this unlined paper with a ballpoint pen or pencil, or draw with crayons and acrylic paints. Ink pens, watercolours, etc. may bleed on this paper. The notebook cover is made of genuine, full-grain buffalo leather, which is produced using organic, vegetable agents.

The notebook is easy to carry and will be your loyal friend. It can serve as a diary, sketchbook, poetry album, a place to store thoughts and ideas, as a sketch for suggestions, for calligraphy or even for simple scribbles that you make during long phone calls, for example.

It also makes a perfect gift. It is a perfect gift idea for various occasions such as Christmas, graduation, name day, birthday, Valentine's Day, anniversary or just because. Any passionate writer, cartoonist, poet, creative designer, etc. will appreciate it.

The fairy tale is about a father who, after seven boys, finally has a baby girl.

A father finally has a girl after seven boys. Since the child is frail and small, the father sends his sons to the spring to get a jug of baptismal water for the baby girl. The seven brothers quarrel and the jug falls into the well.

They dare not go home and the father is worried when they do not return for a long time.

He thinks they are just playing and have forgotten about the water. In his anger, he says: ‘I wish the boys would all turn into ravens.’ The thoughtless wish is immediately fulfilled – the father sees seven ravens fluttering through the air.

The little daughter grows up without knowing that she had brothers, because her parents keep silent about their fate. She eventually finds out what happened from other people – and that they blame her for what happened. Although her parents explain that she is not to blame for the disaster, she continues to feel guilty and sets off alone to find her brothers, taking only a ring from her parents, a small chair and food with her on her journey.

The girl wanders all over the world but cannot find her brothers. Finally, the world is at an end. She comes to the sun, which is much too hot and eats children, then to the moon, which is much too cold and evil for her and says: ‘I smell, smell human flesh’. However, the stars are friendly to her, and the morning star gives her a chicken leg, with which she could unlock the glass mountain – that's where the brothers could be found.

When she arrives at the glass mountain, the girl wants to unlock it, but the dwarf has lost the key. In her desperation, she cuts off one of her fingers, puts it in the lock, and the door opens.

Inside, she meets a dwarf who tells her that the seven ravens are not at home, but he sets the table for her with seven plates and seven cups. The girl takes a little of everything, but drops her ring on the last plate. When the ravens return, they want to eat, but notice that someone has beaten them to it. They say, ‘Who has eaten from my plate? Who has drunk from my cup? That was a human mouth.’ The seventh raven finds the ring at the bottom of his cup, recognises it and thinks: If only our sister were here, we would be saved.

She hears the wish behind the door and steps forward, and the brothers are released and return home with her.