"Adalmina's Pearl" ("Adalmiinan helmi") is a Finnish folk tale. One of the best known versions is by Sakari Topelius. Adalmina is the only child of a king and queen, and gets gifts from her two Fairy Godmothers. One gives her a pearl with the power to make her more beautiful, more intelligent, and more rich by every day. The other promises that if she should ever lose the pearl, and with it all the beauty, wit and riches, she will gain a pure, loving heart in their place. Adalmina grows up to be spoiled rotten, and being so much smarter, prettier and richer than anyone else, she becomes an unbelievably proud, vain, selfish, cold-hearted little tyrant, and is generally a completely unbearable pain to everyone but her doting parents.