Posted by Dan V on March 06, 2000 at 11:19:57 from arachnid.bournemouth.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: sources -- a hunch posted by Anne LeVeque on March 03, 2000 at 19:22:24:
Hi,
I once had a Ladybird book called 'The Princess and the Pea'.
They put a single pea under the princess's mattress, to find out if
she would notice the extra lump. This distinguished her as being
a true princess.
I'm not sure if this is a variant on the same story, though.
Dan