Well, no! For five years, really. Or, well, five and a bit, because you see, sometime during that sixth year, a young and handsome king happened to be hunting in the forest, and he and his party came across the young princess, who was sitting high in a tree sewing her shirts. They waved at her and called to her to come down and tell them her business, if she'd please, because of course finding a young lady all alone in a forest is rather a strange sight indeed! But she simply shook her head and said nothing, and kept her eyes on her shirts in the hopes that they would go away.

But one of the king's soldiers climbed the tree, instead, and carefully collected her, and took her down to speak to the king, because of course the king was terribly curious as to who she was and what she was doing in the tree. So they brought her down, and the king spoke to her kindly in every language he knew, but the little princess never spoke a word, and held her face still as stone.

Well! It happened that this king was very taken with the little princess, even if she wouldn't speak, but more importantly he was concerned for her, because she was all alone and silent there in the woods. So he gathered her up with her shirts and put her on his horse and took her back to his kingdom with him, and was determined to look after her even if she couldn't speak a word to him.

Now, this young king happened to have a mother who was very cruel herself, and she didn't approve at all of her son being so smitten with a silent pretty girl he'd brought home from the wood, and decided that she would simply have to do something about the girl she'd deemed so unworthy of the king. So after the princess had stayed with them awhile, she bribed some village women to spread terrible rumors that their newborn children had been kidnapped, and in the dead of night put blood around the princess's mouth and on her hands so it would look as though she'd taken and devoured them.

Really, isn't that just horrible?