High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daughter of the Forest is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier first published in 1999 It is loosely based on "The Six Swans" (a story that has many versions, one of which by the Brothers Grimm). A girl (Sorcha) must sew six shirts from a painful nettle plant in order to save her brothers from a witch`s enchantment, remaining completely mute until the task is finished. Falling in love complicates her mission.