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The cook asked about the murder, and the boy got out of the bed and turned him into a poodle for his betrayal. The boy wished to go home. The girl was frightened at the thought of the journey, so the boy turned her into a pink (or carnation) and went home, with the poodle running after and the pink in his pocket. He went to his mother, who at ...
The king marries the girls to their spouses of choice. Later, the queen gives birth to two boys and a girl, in three consecutive pregnancies; her jealous sisters take the children and cast them in the water, and accuse the children of devouring them. The children are saved by a couple of elderly farmers.
A 1990 straight-to-video animated film adaption by Hanna-Barbera and Hallmark Cards, simply titled Rapunzel, [40] featured Olivia Newton-John narrating the story. Into the Woods is a musical combining elements from several classic fairy tales, in which Rapunzel is one of the main characters; it was also filmed for television [ 41 ] in 1991 by ...
The theme also appears in the story of the life of Saint Margaret, wherein the saint emerges unharmed from the belly of a dragon, and in the short story "The Red Path" by Jim C. Hines. A Taiwanese story from the 16th century, known as Aunt Tiger bears several striking similarities. In this story there are two girls who are sisters.
In a little West African village, an unusual boy named Kirikou is born, who can speak before birth and walk immediately after birth. After Kirikou's mother tells him that an evil sorceress, Karaba, has dried up their spring and eaten all the men of the village except for one, he decides to accompany the last warrior, his uncle, to visit her and try to stop her.
The boys enter the king's palace and the other two girls, their mother's sisters, are there and give them nuts to stop them from telling the king the story. Despite the trick, the boys count all nuts and tell the king the story, showing him their golden hair. The king expels his sisters-in-law and retakes his wife. [27]
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The Spinning-Woman by the Spring or The Kind and the Unkind Girls is a widespread, traditional folk tale, known throughout Europe [1] and in certain regions of Asia, including Indonesia. The tale is cataloged as AT 480 in the international Folktale catalog .