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| x Beauty and the Beast |
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Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C – enchanted husband – in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot...
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France (pronounced /ˈfræns/ ( listen) or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a country located in Western Europe, with several...
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| x Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve |
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695-Paris, 1755). She is considered the original author of the story of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). Her lengthy version was abridged and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de...
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| x The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired |
The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired is a Celtic fairy tale translated by Dr. Macleod Clarke. Andrew Lang included it in The Orange Fairy Book.
A goat herder and his wife had four sons and a daughter. One day, the daughter vanished while tending...
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| x Aladdin |
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Aladdin (an Anglicisation of the Arabic name Alāʼ ad-Dīn, Arabic: علاء الدين literally "nobility of the faith") is one of the tales of medieval Arabian origin in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), and one of the most...
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| x Ali Baba |
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Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ʿAli Bāba) is a fictional character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Some critics believe that this story was added to One Thousand and One Nights by...
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| x Allerleirauh |
Allerleirauh or All-Kinds-of-Fur is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book.
It is Aarne-Thompson folktale type...
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| x Almondseed and Almondella |
Almondseed and Almondella is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 1641 Doctor Know-All. Other types of this type are Doctor Know-all and The Charcoal Burner.
A poor man saw a black hen,...
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| x Alphege, or the Green Monkey |
Alphege, or the Green Monkey is a fairy tale. Andrew Lang collected it in The Yellow Fairy Book.
A king lost his wife at the birth of his son, and only the sight of his son could console him. He chose a nearby queen, known as the Good Queen, for a...
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| x Ancilotto, King of Provino |
Ancilotto, King of Provino is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 707: the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird. It is the oldest...
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| x Andras Baive |
Andras Baive is a Lapp fairy tale collected by J. C. Poestion in Lapplandische Märchen. Andrew Lang included it in The Orange Fairy Book.
A town, very proud of their bailiff's ability to run, scorned tales that Andras Baive was faster, but one day,...
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| x The Angel |
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"The Angel" (Danish: Engelen) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale tells of an angel and a dead child gathering flowers to carry to Heaven where one flower will sing when kissed by God. The...
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| x Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa |
Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa or Anthousa the Fair with Golden Hair is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece. Other variants were collected by Mihalis Meraklis and Anna Angelopoulou.
It is Aarne-Thompson type...
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| x Asmund and Signy |
Asmund and Signy is an Icelandic fairy tale collected in Islandische Märchen. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book.
A king and queen had a son, Asmund, and a daughter, Signy. Asmund loved the outdoors. He persuaded his father to give him...
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| x Aurore and Aimée |
Aurore and Aimée is a French literary fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Like her better known tale Beauty and the Beast, it is among the first fairy tales deliberately written for children.
It draws on traditional fairy tale...
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| x Babiole |
Babiole is a French literary fairy tale, written by Madame d'Aulnoy.
A queen thought she was childless because of the ill wishes of the fairy, Fanferluche. One day, Fanferluche appeared to her to say that this was not true, that the queen would have...
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| x Baš Čelik |
Baš Čelik (Serbian: Баш-Челик), meaning "real (hard) steel" is a famous Serbian folk tale.
A king had three sons and three daughters. On his deathbed he made his sons swear that they would marry off their sisters to the first person who asked. When...
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| x The Battle of the Birds |
The Battle of the Birds is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in his Popular Tales of the West Highlands. He recorded it from a fisherman near Inverary, John Mackenzie. Joseph Jacobs took it from there for his Celtic Fairy...
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| x Bawang Putih Bawang Merah |
Bawang Putih Bawang Merah is one of the more famous of old Malay archipelago folktales, passed down orally through the generations. Like most Malay folktales, the story is laden with lessons regarding familial values, patience in the face of...
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| x The Bay-Tree Maiden |
The Bay-Tree Maiden is a Romanian fairy tale.
Once, a prince began to cry six weeks before he was due to be born. Nothing his mother did placated him until she promised him that he could marry Sanda-Lucsandra, a fair maiden who lived past nine lands...
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| x The Bear |
The Bear is a fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang in The Grey Fairy Book.
It is Aarne-Thompson classification system type 510B, the persecuted heroine. Others of this type include Cap O' Rushes, Catskin, Little Cat Skin, Allerleirauh, The King who...
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| x Bearskin |
Bearskin is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, as tale no. 101. A variant from Sicily, Don Giovanni de la Fortuna, was collected by Laura Gonzenbach in Sicilianische Märchen and included by Andrew Lang in The Pink Fairy Book. Italo...
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| x Beauty and Pock Face |
Beauty and Pock Face is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
It is classified as Cinderella, Aarne-Thompson type 510A, the persecuted heroine; others of this type include The Sharp Grey Sheep; The...
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| x The Bee and the Orange Tree |
The Bee and the Orange Tree is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy.
After many childless years, a king and queen had a daughter, whom they named Aimée. Unfortunately, a ship she was on, wrecked. As fate would have it, she drifted ashore...
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| x Bella Venezia |
Bella Venezia is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Calvino selected this variant, where the heroine meets robbers, rather than others that contains dwarfs, because he believed the dwarfs were probably an...
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| x Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné |
Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné is a French literary fairy tale, written by Madame d'Aulnoy.
A king, driven from his capital by an emperor, was forming an army and demanded that one person from every noble household become a soldier or, face a...
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| x The Story of Bensurdatu |
The Story of Bensurdatu is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in Sicilianische Märchen. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book.
A king and queen had three daughters, and did everything to make them happy. One day, the...
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| x Biancabella and the Snake |
Biancabella and the Snake is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola.
Italo Calvino included a Piedmontese variant The Snake, with some elements from a Tuscan version, while...
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| x The Bird 'Grip' |
The Bird 'Grip' is a Swedish fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it The Pink Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/firebird.
A king lost his sight. An old woman said that the song of the bird, 'Grip', would restore it...
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| x The Bird of Truth |
The Bird of Truth is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Cecilia Böhl de Faber in her Cuentos de encantamiento. Andrew Lang included it in The Orange Fairy Book.
A fisherman found two beautiful babies in a crystal cradle, a girl and a boy, floating in...
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| x Black Bull of Norroway |
The Black Bull of Norroway is a fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales.
The language, including references to bannocks, would indicate a Scottish story teller, in this instance, Kenny Norman Macleod.
It is Aarne-Thompson...
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| x The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen |
The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen is an Irish fairy tale collected in Hibernian Tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.
A dying queen made her husband promise to hide her sons from the new queen by raising them in an island on a...
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| x Blockhead Hans |
Blockhead Hans is a fairy tale from Andrew Lang's The Yellow Fairy Book. Lang gives no source for the tale.
The two educated sons of an old squire wanted to marry the princess, who said that she would marry the man who chose his words best. They...
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| x Bluebeard |
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"Bluebeard" (French: "La Barbe bleue") is a French literary fairy tale written by Charles Perrault and is one of eight tales by the author first published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697 in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. The tale tells the...
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| x The Blue Belt |
The Blue Belt is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr. It is Aarne-Thompson type 590.
A beggar woman and her son were returning home when he saw a blue belt. She forbad him to pick it up...
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| x The Blue Bird |
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"The Blue Bird" is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book, 1892, collected by Andrew Lang.
The tale is Aarne-Thompson type 432, The Prince as Bird.
Overwhelmed...
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| x The Blue Light |
The Blue Light is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Many of the features from Hans Christian Anderson's later work "The Tinder Box" and from the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp originate with this version.
It involves a soldier who has been...
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| x The Blue Mountains |
The Blue Mountains is a fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book, but provided no bibliographical information.
A Scotsman, an Englishman and an Irishman all ran away from the army together. After several days, the Scotsman saw a...
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| x The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life |
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The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.
An old king whose sight was failing heard of a garden with apples that would make a man grow young, and...
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| x Boots and His Brothers |
Boots and His Brothers is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr.
A king had his castle shadowed by a great oak tree, and had no well that held water year round. He declared that...
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| x Boots and the Troll |
Boots and the Troll is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.
An old man died. His three sons set out to seek their fortune. The two older would have nothing to do with the youngest son, whom they said was fit for nothing but to sit...
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| x Boots Who Ate a Match With the Troll |
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Boots Who Ate a Match With the Troll is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. The troll is, as they often are, not very intelligent while the boy is clever, winning an eating contest.
A farmer sent his sons to cut wood in a forest...
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| x The Boy and the Wolves |
The Boy and the Wolves is a Native American fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book.
A man lived far from his people, but one day he died. He told his older children that they must never forsake their younger brother. Soon after...
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| x The Boy Who Cried Wolf |
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, also known as The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, is a fable attributed to Aesop (210 in Perry's numbering system.) The protagonist of the fable is a bored shepherd boy who entertained himself by calling out "Wolf!" Nearby...
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| x The Boy Who Drew Cats |
"The Boy Who Drew Cats" is a Japanese fairy tale collected by Lafcadio Hearn in Japanese Fairy Tales.
A farmer and his wife had many children; the youngest son was too small and weak, and spent all his time drawing cats instead of doing his chores....
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| x The Boy Who Found Fear At Last |
The Boy Who Found Fear At Last is a Turkish fairy tale collected by Ignaz Kunos in Türkische Volksmärchen. Andrew Lang included it in The Olive Fairy Book
A woman had an only son. During a storm, she told him to shut the door because she felt...
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| x The Boys with the Golden Stars |
The Boys with the Golden Stars ("Doi Feti cu Stea in Frunte") is a Romanian fairy tale collected in Rumanische Märchen. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book.
A herdsman had three daughters, and the youngest was the most beautiful. One...
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| x The Bronze Ring |
The Bronze Ring is the first story in The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. According to Lang's preface, this version of this fairy tale from the Middle East or Central Asia was translated and adapted from Traditions Populaires de l'Asie Mineure by...
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| x Brother and Sister |
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Brother and Sister is a well known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales). It is alternatively known as Little Sister and Little...
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| x The Brown Bear of the Green Glen |
The Brown Bear of the Green Glen is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as John MacDonald, a "Traveling Tinker." He also noted the parallels with The Water of Life.
A...
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| x Brewery of Eggshells |
Brewery of Eggshells is a Welsh fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic Fairy Tales.
A woman had to leave her twin babies alone for a time. When she returned, she saw two elves in blue petticoats cross her path. The babies looked the...
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| x Bunbuku Chagama |
Bunbuku Chagama (Japanese: ぶんぶく茶釜) is a Japanese folktale about a raccoon-dog, or tanuki, that uses its shapeshifting powers to reward its rescuer for his kindness.
Bunbuku Chagama roughly translates to "happiness bubbling over like a tea pot." The...
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| x The Buried Moon |
The Buried Moon or The Dead Moon is a fairy tale included by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. It is a striking unusual tale, with few variants, and often appearing more mythological than is common for fairy tales. It was collected by Mrs....
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| x Bushy Bride |
Bushy Bride is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 403, the black and the white bride.
A widower with a son and a daughter married a widow with a daughter, and the stepmother maltreated the children...
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Buttercup or Butterball is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327 C, the devil (witch) carries the hero home in a sack.
While his mother was baking, the dog began to bark,...
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| x The Canary Prince |
The Canary Prince is an Italian fairy tale, the 18th tale in Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino. He took the tale from Turin, making various stylistic changes; he noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec...
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| x Cannetella |
Cannetella is an Italian literary fairy tale told by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book, as collected by Hermann Kletke.
Another version of this tale is told in A Book of Wizards, by Ruth Manning...
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| x Cap O' Rushes |
Cap O' Rushes is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 510B, the persecuted heroine. Others of this type include Little Cat Skin, Donkeyskin, Catskin, Allerleirauh, The King who Wished to...
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| x The Cat on the Dovrefjell |
The Cat on the Dovrefjell (also known as The Cat on the Dovre-Mountain and The Trolls and the Pussycat) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1161.
A man was bringing a white bear to give to the king of...
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| x The Cat's Elopement |
The Cat's Elopement is a Japanese fairy tale collected by David Brauns in Japanische Marchen und Sagen. Andrew Lang included it in The Pink Fairy Book.
A handsome cat named Gon, belonging to a music teacher, and a lovely cat named Koma, belonging to...
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