After kidnapping the King's daughter and turning her into something definitely not human, pure-hearted Jacob is exactly what the wicked witch needs as the final ingredient in her sinister scheme to destroy the peaceful Kingdom. When Jacob refuses to collaborate, she curses him with a hunched back and a really, really long nose.—Anonymous

The evil sorceress has a cunning plan, for the implementation of which a child with a good heart is needed. She found such a child, and lured him by fraudulent way to her. The choice fell on Jacob, whose mother was a greengrocer and his father was a shoemaker. The sorceress did not accept the boy's refusal to cooperate with her, and turned him into a dwarf. Jacob had to go through a lot because of his new ugly appearance, but his heart remained kind.—Tango Papa