Once upon a time, when the Reign of Granada was governed from The Alhambra by the Arabs, there was a Sultan called Mohamed The Lefty who married a Christian captive with whom he had three beautiful daughters: Zaida, Zoraida and Zorahaida.
As time went by the Sultan grew worried about his daughters and sought advice from an astrologer so as to know what would become of the three charming princesses in the future. And this counsel he got: "watch your daughters closely when they reach marriageable age and don't trust anyone."
The Sultan, extremely suspicious, locked his daughters in a golden cage, a tower in the palace of The Alhambra with any imaginable comfort.
And there they grew up and from there they saw them -when they had reached marriageable age-, three handsome Christian prisoners. Despite the Sultan's precautions, they couldn't help falling in love at first sight.
The nursemaid who looked after the princesses managed to arrange keeping the prisoners close enough to the tower so that the princesses could get to know them.
Soon, they all planned to escape together and get married. And so they did, at least two of them, as eventually Zorahaida didn't have the guts to run away from his father, whom, on the other hand, she respected very deeply.
Legend has it that she always regretted not escaping with her sisters, and that she finally died in the tower, where her spirit will forever remain unless a Christian bachelor breaks the spell.
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