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Allerleirauh
"Allerleirauh" () 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 510B, unnatural love. Others of this type include " Cap O' Rushes", " Donkeyskin", " Catskin", " Little Cat Skin", " The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter", " The She-Bear", " Mossycoat", " Tattercoats", " The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress", " Katie Woodencloak", " The Bear" and " The Princess in the Suit of Leather". Indeed, some English translators of "Allerleirauh" titled that story "Catskin" despite the differences between the German and English tales. Synopsis A king promised his dying wife that he would not re-marry unless it was to a woman who was as beautiful as she was, and when he looked for a new wife, he realized that the only woman that could match her beauty was his own daughter. The daughter tried to make the wedding ...
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Catskin
Catskin is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in ''More English Fairy Tales''. Marian Roalfe Cox, in her study of ''Cinderella'', identified as one of the basic types, the Unnatural Father, contrasting with ''Cinderella'' itself and '' Cap O' Rushes''.If The Shoe Fits: Folklorists' criteria for #510


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There once was a lord who had many fine estates and who wished to leave them to a son. When a daughter is born to him instead, he is very unhappy and will not even look at her. When she is ...
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Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. Prevalent elements include dragons, dwarfs, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, merfolk, monsters, monarchy, pixies, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, witches, wizards, magic, and enchantments. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance". ...
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Cap O' Rushes
"Cap-o'-Rushes" is an English fairy tale published by Joseph Jacobs in ''English Fairy Tales''. Jacobs gives his source as "Contributed by Mrs. Walter-Thomas to "Suffolk Notes and Queries" of the ''Ipswich Journal'', published by Mr. Lang in ''Longman's Magazine'', vol. xiii., also in ''Folk-Lore'' September, 1890". In the latter journal, Andrew Lang notes the folktale was "discovered" in the Suffolk notes by Edward Clodd. Marian Roalfe Cox, in her pioneering study of ''Cinderella'', identified as one of the basic types, the King Lear decision, contrasting with ''Cinderella'' itself and ''Catskin''.If The Shoe Fits: Folklorists' criteria for #510
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Donkeyskin
"Donkeyskin" () is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's '' Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. Andrew Lang included it, somewhat euphemized, in '' The Grey Fairy Book''.Bottigheimer, Ruth. "Before ''Contes du temps passe (1697): Charles Perrault's ''Griselidis'', ''Souhaits'' and ''Peau''". ''The Romantic Review, Volume 99, Number 3. pp. 175-189 It is classed among folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love. Synopsis An extremely fortunate and wealthy king lives with his beautiful wife and daughter. The source of the king's riches is his prized, marvelous donkey whose droppings are gold. Suddenly the king's wife is struck by an illness and dies, but not before making her husband promise not to remarry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equal hers. The king grieves for a lengthy period, but is finally persuaded to seek another wife. It be ...
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Mossycoat
"Mossycoat" is a fairy tale published by Katherine M. Briggs and Ruth Tongue in ''Folktales of England''. Carter, Angela. ''The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book'' New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. pp. 48-56. . It appears in ''A Book of British Fairy Tales'' by Alan Garner. and '' Small-Tooth Dog'' by Kevin Crossley-Holland. The story known by folklorists was collected by researcher T. W. Thompson from teller Taimi Boswell, a Romani, at Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, January 9, 1915. It is Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love. Others of this type include "Donkeyskin", "Catskin", "Allerleirauh", " The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter", " The She-Bear", " Tattercoats", "Cap O' Rushes", " The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress", " The Bear" and " The Princess in the Suit of Leather". Synopsis A hawker wanted to marry a widow's young daughter, but she did not want to marry him. The widow, who was spinning a coat for her, told her to ask for a white satin dress with gold spr ...
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Little Cat Skin
''Little Catskin'' is an American fairy tale from Kentucky, collected by Marie Campbell in ''Tales from the Cloud Walking Country'', listing her informant as Big Nelt. It is Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love. Others of this type include ''Catskin'', ''Cap O' Rushes'', ''Donkeyskin'', ''Allerleirauh'', '' The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter'', '' The She-Bear'', ''Mossycoat'', '' Tattercoats'', '' The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress'', '' The Bear'' and '' The Princess in the Suit of Leather''. Synopsis A man puts away his dead wife's wedding gown, saying he would not remarry to a less pretty woman. His two older daughters mistreat the youngest daughter until she has to patch her gowns with catskin. One day, she puts on her mother's gown. Her father begged her to tell him who she was. She demanded and got a dress the color of all the clouds that go by, and another of all the flowers that bloom; then she told him that she was his daughter Little Cat Skin. He dro ...
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Tattercoats
"Tattercoats" is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his ''More English Fairy Tales''. It is Aarne–Thompson type 510B, the persecuted heroine. Others of this type include "Cap O' Rushes", "Catskin", "Little Cat Skin", "Allerleirauh", " The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter", " The She-Bear", "Donkeyskin", "Mossycoat", " The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress", and " The Bear". Synopsis A great lord had no living relatives except a little granddaughter, and because her mother, his daughter, had died in childbirth, he swore that he would never look at her. He sat in his castle and mourned his dead daughter. The granddaughter grew up quite neglected, and was called "Tattercoats" for her ragged clothing. She spent her days in the fields with only a gooseherd for her companion. Her grandfather was invited to a royal ball. He had his hair sheared off, for it had bound him to his chair, and made preparations to go. Tattercoats's old nurse begged him to t ...
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', originally known as the ''Children's and Household Tales'' (, , commonly abbreviated as ''KHM''), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first Edition (book), edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in 1815. By the seventh edition in 1857, the corpus of tales had expanded to 200 tales and 10 "Children's Legends". It is considered the seminal work of Western children's literature and is listed by UNESCO in its UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Memory of the World Registry. Origin Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two of ten children from Dorothea (''née'' Zimmer) and Philipp Wilhelm Grimm. Philipp was a highly regarded district magistrate in Steinau an der Straße, about from Hanau. Jacob and Wilhelm were sent to school for a classical education once ...
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The Bear (fairy Tale)
The Bear is a fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang in '' The Grey Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson classification system type 510B, unnatural love. Others of this type include Cap O' Rushes, Catskin, Little Cat Skin, Allerleirauh, The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter, The She-Bear, Tattercoats, Mossycoat, The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress, and Donkeyskin, or the legend of Saint Dymphna.Heidi Anne Heiner,Tales Similar to Donkeyskin"Maria Tatar, p 213, ''The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales'', Synopsis A king loved his daughter so much that he kept her in her rooms for fear harm would come to her. She complained to her nurse; unbeknownst to her, the nurse was a witch. She told her to get a wheelbarrow and a bearskin from the king. The king gave them to her, the nurse enchanted them, and when the princess put on the skin, it disguised her, and when she got into the wheelbarrow, it took her wherever she wanted to go. She had it take her to a forest. A prince hunted h ...
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Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. He came to public attention when he provided the illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s. Early years Henry Justice Ford was the son of Katherine Mary Justice and William Augustus Ford, a solicitor; his paternal grandfather was George Samuel Ford, a well known bill discounter. His father and many of his family were cricketers. His father wrote several articles and books on the subject, and Ford's brother, Francis Ford (1866-1940), played for England in an Ashes series in Australia. He was educated at Repton School and Clare College, Cambridge - where he gained a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1882. He returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and later, at the Bushey School of Art, under the German-born Hubert von Herkomer. Career In 1892, Ford began exhibiting paintings o ...
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The Child Who Came From An Egg
The Child who came from an Egg or The Egg-Born Princess () is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald in ''Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud''. Synopsis A queen told an old woman that she had two griefs: a new one, that her husband was at war, and an old one, that they had no children. She gave her a basket with an egg: the queen was to put it somewhere warm. In three months, it would break and let out a doll. She was to let it alone, and then it would become a baby girl. She would have a baby of her own, a son, and she was to put the girl with him and show them both to the king, and then raise the son herself but entrust the daughter to a nurse. Furthermore, she must invite this woman to the christening by throwing a wild goose feather into the air. The queen obeyed exactly. When the christening arrived, a dazzlingly beautiful woman came in a cream-colored carriage, and was dressed like the sun. She decreed that the girl was to be named Dot ...
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The Girl Without Hands
"The Girl Without Hands" or "The helpless Maiden" or "The Armless Maiden" () is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 31 and was first published in the 1812 edition of '' Children's and Household Tales''. The story was revised by the Grimm brothers over the years, and the final version was published in the 7th edition of Children's and Household Tales in 1857. It is Aarne-Thompson type 706.Heidi Anne Heiner"Tales Similar to the Girl Without Hands" Story elements Throughout different variations, the story takes place in four sections.Ashley, Melissa"'And Then the Devil Will Take Me Away': Adaptation, Evolution, and The Brothers Grimm's Suppression of Taboo Motifs in 'The Girl without Hands'."''Double Dialogues'', 15 December 2010. The Mutilated Heroine: A strange man approaches a miller and offers him riches in exchange for whatever he found standing behind the mill. Believing that it was only an apple tree, and unaware of the stranger's identity, th ...
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