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The Wicked Sisters
The Wicked Sisters (russian: По колена ноги в золоте, по локоть руки в серебре) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it, as "The Queen's Children", in '' A Book of Kings and Queens''. Synopsis Prince Ivan hears three beautiful sisters talking. The older two say that if he married them, they would sew him a marvelous shirt; the youngest says she would bear him three sons with the sun on the forehead, the moon on the back of their heads, and stars to each side. The older sisters envied her and bribed her servants; when she bore the sons she had said, they stole them and hid them an arbor in the garden; then they presented the prince with first a puppy, then a kitten, then an ordinary child. The prince finally repudiated and demanded justice for her deceiving him. The chief justice decreed she should be blinded, put in a barrel with the ordinary child, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, 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. 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 (love), romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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-Uther type 707: " The Three Golden Children" or "the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird". It is the oldest known variant of this tale, and influenced Madame d'Aulnoy's ''Princess Belle-Etoile''. A variant of this tale appears in Antoine Galland's '' Arabian Nights'' collection, but no Arab manuscript exists, and Galland, reporting an oral source, may also have been influenced by this version. It spread to appear as ''The Three Little Birds'' in the Brothers Grimm's collection. Synopsis Ancilotto, the king, heard three sisters talking: Brunora, the eldest sister, said if she married the king's majordomo, she could give the entire court a drink from one glass of water; Lionella, the second, said if she married the king's chamberlain, she could turn one spindle of linen to give fine shifts to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Princes Et La Princesse De Marinca
Les Princes et la Princesse de Marinca (English: ''The Princes and the Princess of Marinca'') is a French-Canadian fairy tale from Gaspésie published by Canadian folklorist Carmen Roy. It is related to the motif of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". Summary A prince gets lost in his own realm and reaches a house, where three orphan sisters are talking: the elder wants to marry the royal gardener, the middle one the royal baker and the youngest the king. The youngest marries the king and, while, he is away at war, gives birth to a little girl, "the most beautiful under the sun", with a golden sun on her left shoulder. Her jealous sisters take the girl and cast her in the sea. The next year, the queen gives birth to twin boys, "the most beautiful under the sun", one with a golden moon on his left arm, the other with a silver star on his right arm. Years later, they are sent for a bird th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sisters Envious Of Their Cadette
The Sisters who Envied Their Cadette ( French: ''Histoire des deux sœurs jalouses de leur cadette'') is a fairy tale collected by French orientalist Antoine Galland and published in his translation of ''The Arabian Nights'', a compilation of Arabic and Persian fairy tales. It is related to the motif of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". Summary A long time ago, the ruler of Persia, Khosrow Shah, disguises himself to mingle with his people to hear their thoughts. One night, he approaches a house where three sisters are talking; the eldest says she wants to marry the sultan's baker so she can eat all the best bread; the middle one wants to marry the sultan's cook so she can taste the most delicious dishes. As for the third sister, she declares she wants to marry the king himself, and promises to give him a child with hair of gold and silver, their tears will become pearls and whenever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden-Haired Children (Turkish Fairy Tale)
The Golden-Haired Children is a Turkish fairy tale collected by folklorist Ignác Kúnos. It is related to the theme of the Calumniated Wife and is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 707, " The Three Golden Children". Sources The tale was first translated into Hungarian by Kúnos with the title ''Az aranyhajú gyermekek''. It was later translated into German as ''Die goldhaarigen Kinder''. Summary In a kingdom, long ago, a woodcutter's three daughters work with sewing and stitching from morning till night, selling their work in the marketplace. One day, however, the padishah of the city bans lighting candles at night, for a period of three days and three nights. The sisters, trying to earn their living, continue their activities by candlelight and cover their house with a thick curtain. On the third night, the padishah decides to check if his people are following the ban. He passes by the house of the three sisters, who are talking among themselves: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun, Moon And Morning Star
Sun, Moon and Morning Star (German: ''Sonne, Mond und Morgenstern''; Greek: ''Ήλιος, Φεγγάρι και Αυγερινός'', "Helios, Phengari kai Augerinós") is a Greek folktale collected and published in 1864 by Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn. It is related to the folkloric motif of the ''Calumniated Wife'' and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, " The Three Golden Children". Source Von Hahn sourced the tale as from the island of Syra. Translations Author Barbara Ker Wilson translated the tale as ''The Sun, the Moon and the Star of Morning''. Summary One night, the three daughters of a poor couple talk to each other: the oldest wants to marry the royal cook so she can eat the finest meals; the middle one wants to marry the royal treasurer to be rich, and the youngest wants to marry the king's son and bear him three children, the Sun, the Moon and the Morning Star. Unbeknowst to them, the prince, that night, was spying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Hair And Golden Curls
Silver Hair and Golden Curls ( hy, ԱՐԾԱԹ ՄԱԶԵՐ, ՈՍԿԻ ԾԱՄԵՐ, translit=Artsat’ Mazer, Voski Tsamer) is an Armenian folktale originally collected by ethnologue and clergyman Karekin Servantsians in ''Hamov-Hotov'' (1884). It is related to the theme of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, " The Three Golden Children". Summary A king's son builds his tent in a meadow full of flowers. One day, three maidens come to the meadow to pick vegetables and flowers, and begin to talk among themselves: the first promises to marry the king and plant a grapevine that will still have grapes after everyone plucks one; the second that she will weave such a carpet that the whole army will seat and there is still more than half left; and the third promises to bear twins, a silver-haired girl and a golden-haired boy. The king's son overhears their conversation and decides to marry all three, the older two fail in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hedgehog, The Merchant, The King And The Poor Man
The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King and the Poor Man ( Hungarian: ''A sündisznó''; English: "The Hedgehog") is a Hungarian fairy tale collected by László Merényi and translated by folklorist Jeremiah Curtin. The first part of the tale refers to the international cycle of ''Animal as Bridegroom'', wherein a human maiden marries a prince cursed to be an animal. The second part of the tale belongs to the cycle of the ''Calumniated Wife'' and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". Summary A merchant loses his way in the forest. After five days trying and failing to find a way out, he utters out loud a promise to marry one of his three daughters to anyone that can help him out of the woods, as well as three sacks of coin as a wedding gift. Suddenly, a voice speaks from under him, near his feet, a small hedgehog that offers his help in return to the man upholding his promise. The hedgehog leads the king out of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy With The Moon On His Forehead
The Boy with a Moon on his Forehead is a Bengali folktale collected by Maive Stokes and Lal Behari Day. These tales are classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 707, " The Three Golden Children". These tales refer to stories where a girl promises a king she will bear a child or children with wonderful attributes, but her jealous relatives or the king's wives plot against the babies and their mother. Summary Stokes's version In Maive Stokes's version, later republished by folklorist Joseph Jacobs, titled ''The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin'', a gardener's daughter says out loud, to her friends' mockery, that when she marries the will give birth to a boy with a moon on the forehead and a star on the chin. Her friends think she is only jesting, but her words draw the king's attention, who makes her his fifth cowife. A year later, the king's other four queens convince the newly crowned one that the king may give her a kettle drum t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A String Of Pearls Twined With Golden Flowers
A String of Pearls Twined with Golden Flowers, The Golden Twins or Pearls, Thread Yourselves (Romanian: ''Înşiră-te mărgăritari'') is a Romanian fairy tale collected by Petre Ispirescu in ''Legende sau basmele românilor''. Source According to Daniel Gicu's research, the tale was collected by Ispirescu in 1876 from a soldier named Mihai Constantin. Synopsis A young and handsome king, whenever he could leave his duties, liked to wander the world. He passed by the castle of an emperor and heard his three daughters speak. They all wished they could marry him; the oldest said that she would keep his house clean; the second, that she would make his house like two golden apples; the third, that she would bear him golden twins. He married the third, and she became pregnant, but his old favorite, a gypsy slave, envied the queen. When the children were due, the king had to go to war. He was greeted back with two puppies, which he was told the queen had borne. He made the queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys With The Golden Stars
The Boys with the Golden Stars (Romanian: ''Doi feți cu stea în frunte'') is a Romanian fairy tale collected in ''Rumänische Märchen''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Violet Fairy Book''.Lang, Andrew. The Violet Fairy Book'. London; New York: Longmans, Green. 1906. pp. 299-310. An alternate title to the tale is ''The Twins with the Golden Star''. Origins The Romanian tale ''Doi feți cu stea în frunte'' was first published in the Romanian magazine ''Convorbiri Literare'', in October, 1874, and signed by Romanian author Ioan Slavici. Synopsis A herdsman had three daughters, Ana, Stana and Laptița. The youngest was the most beautiful. One day, the emperor was passing with attendants. The oldest daughter said that if he married her, she would bake him a loaf of bread that would make him young and brave forever; the second one said, if one married her, she would make him a shirt that would protect him in any fight, even with a dragon, and against heat and water; the yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ( rus, «Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной царевне Лебеди», Skazka o tsare Saltane, o syne yevo slavnom i moguchem bogatyre knyaze Gvidone Saltanoviche i o prekrasnoy tsarevne Lebedi ) is an 1831 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. As a folk tale it is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 707, " The Three Golden Children", for it being a variation of The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird. Synopsis The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan (Saltán) to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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