Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

Two witches - mother and daughter - have killed the cockerel that usually heralds the dawn. As a result, the Sun doesn't rise. The Good Witch of the Sun seeks justice from the King. He rules in her favour and incurs the wrath of the Evil Witch. She casts a spell forecasting that the King's beautiful daughter, Princess Jasněnka, will marry a shoemaker. Enraged that he will not now be able to marry her off to a man of royal or noble birth, her father, the king, imprisons her in a tower of the castle to ensure she doesn't meet anyone without his knowledge. However, to make her spell work, the Evil Witch summons an Evil Spirit who tricks Jíra, a shoemaker, to design and make a pair of leather wings that allow him to fly. The shoemaker wears the wings and flies over fields and forests, finally landing on the castle tower where he meets the imprisoned Princess Jasněnka. The two immediately fall in love, with Jíra and Jasněnka then eloping to the horror of the castle staff who believe that Jíra is Lucifer. Jasněnka and Jíra marry. At first, the two enemy witches (mother and daughter) are delighted, but when they see how happy the young couple are, they are filled with rage and become determined to shatter their happiness. First, they force Jasněnka to make a mess in the couple's kitchen, expecting Jíra will beat her, but when he arrives he finds it funny. Next, disguised as wealthy ladies, the witch and her daughter visit the market where the Princess sells the shoes made by her beloved husband shoemaker. Casting a spell, they change her into a dove, and imprison her in their dungeon. The Shoemaker sets off to find her with only one of her slippers to help him. The Good Witch of the Sun comes to his aid, gives him a ring with magical powers, and guides him to the imprisoned Princess. After a spectacular fight with the Evil Spirit, the Princess and the Shoemaker escape. But the witches had also concocted an evil potion to erase memory that Jasnenka unwittingly gives to Jíra who falls victim to it and sends him to sleep. The Princess is then captured by the King's soldiers, and returned to the castle, where the King makes plans to speedily marry her off to one of three noble princes. In the nick of time the Shoemaker, who recovered from the effects of the potion and succeeded in remembering his identity, interrupts the wedding and he and the Princess fly off together to live happily ever after.