Reading Notes: Goblins: The Three Lovers, Part A

Story source: Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur W. Ryder, with illustrations by Perham W. Nahl (1917).

A girl was very pretty, and she attracted the attention of three brothers. For fear of hurting the feelings of two of the three, she waited to decide who she would marry. However, one day she died. Her body was burned to ashes that one brother slept on and got food by begging, another took her bones to dip in sacred rivers, and the third traveled the world as a monk.
The monk brother found a woman who threw her child in the fire, but she brought him back to life within seconds. The monk stole the book she had used, in hopes of bringing the girl - Coral - back to life as beautiful as ever. They fought over who should have her, and went to the king to decide.
The king knew who should have her, and if he did not say he was cursed so that his head would explode. The king decided the monk did what a father would do, so he could not be the husband. The one who kept her bones did what a son should do, so he could not be the husband. The one who slept with her ashes however, did what a lover would do - so he should be the husband.

Coral is like a phoenix, from the ashes she rose.