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  2. Category:Female characters in fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    The Girl and the Dead Man; The Girl as Soldier (Russian folktale) The Girl with Two Husbands; The Girl Without Hands; Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What; The Goat Girl; The Goat-Faced Girl; Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; The Golden Bird (Berber folktale) The Golden Fish, The Wonder-working Tree and the Golden Bird; Golden Hair (fairy tale)

  3. Frau Holle - Wikipedia

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    According to the Aarne and Thompson classification system of fairy tales, Mother Hulda is a story of type 480, The Kind and the Unkind Girls. Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume , Diamonds and Toads , The Three Heads in the Well , Father Frost , The Three Little Men in the Wood , The Enchanted Wreath , The Old Witch , and The Two ...

  4. Little Red Riding Hood - Wikipedia

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    Scarlet is a 2013 novel written by Marissa Meyer that was loosely based on the fairy tale. In the story, a girl named Scarlet tries to find her missing grandmother with the help of a mysterious street fighter called Wolf. It is the second book of The Lunar Chronicles. The Land of Stories is a series written by Chris Colfer. In it, Red Riding ...

  5. List of fictional princesses - Wikipedia

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    French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Included by Andrew Lang by in The Blue Fairy Book. Madame d'Aulnoy: Abricotine Le Prince Lutin: She serves as a fairy princess of the Island of Quiet Pleasures. Princess Belle-Etoile Princess Belle-Etoile: French fairy tale inspired by Giovanni Francesco Straparola's Ancilotto, King of Provino.

  6. The Goose Girl - Wikipedia

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    It includes the tale of "The Goose Girl" among other tales from the Brothers Grimm. "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" is a short story adaption by author Nancy Farmer. This version tells the classic tale from Falada's point of view. Intisar Khanani, author of the Sunbolt Chronicles, wrote a fantasy retelling of the Goose Girl, titled Thorn. The ...

  7. Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.

  8. The Girl Without Hands - Wikipedia

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    "The Girl Without Hands" or "The helpless Maiden" or "The Armless Maiden" (German: Das Mädchen ohne Hände) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. [1] It is tale number 31 and was first published in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2]

  9. Sleeping Beauty - Wikipedia

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    An episode of the series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987–89) is dedicated to Princess Briar Rose. [61] The Legend of Sleeping Brittany (1989), an episode of Alvin & the Chipmunks based on the fairy tale. [62] Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty (1990), a Japanese/Czechoslovakian stop-motion animated featurette directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto.