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* UnfinishedBusiness:
** In "The Wonderful Birch", the titular tree growing on her mother's grave helps the heroine against her Wicked Stepmother.
** In "The Bird Grip]]", the fox that helps the hero reveals at the end that he was a dead man whose burial the hero had paid for.
** In "The Wonderful Birch", the titular tree growing on her mother's grave helps the heroine against her Wicked Stepmother.
** In "The Bird Grip]]", the fox that helps the hero reveals at the end that he was a dead man whose burial the hero had paid for.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: In the Bukovinian tale "Literature/TheFlowerQueensDaughter" ([[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/020.htm link]]), the main character:
-->''And she disappeared into her hut, but returned very soon and said, "You are a mighty Prince, but at the same time you have a kind heart, which deserves to be rewarded. Would you like to have the most beautiful woman in the world for your wife?"\\
"Most certainly I would," replied the Prince.\\
So the old woman continued, "The most beautiful woman in the whole world is the daughter of the Queen of the Flowers, who has been captured by a dragon."'
-->''And she disappeared into her hut, but returned very soon and said, "You are a mighty Prince, but at the same time you have a kind heart, which deserves to be rewarded. Would you like to have the most beautiful woman in the world for your wife?"\\
"Most certainly I would," replied the Prince.\\
So the old woman continued, "The most beautiful woman in the whole world is the daughter of the Queen of the Flowers, who has been captured by a dragon."'
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* SacredHospitality: In "Literature/TheAdventuresOfCovanTheBrownHaired" ([[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/or/orfb27.htm link]]), Covan gets the gratitude and help of a dog, an otter, and a falcon by accepting their hospitality for a night -- neither mistrusting them nor scorning it as simple.
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* ImpossibleTheft: In "Literature/HowTheDragonWasTricked" ([[https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/145/the-pink-fairy-book/4830/how-the-dragon-was-tricked/ link]]), the main character must steal a dragon's flying horse, the dragon's bedsheet with little bells, and finally the dragon himself.
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* DueToTheDead:
** In "Literature/TheBirdGrip" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223345/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html link]]), the hero arranges for a man's burial and acquires a fox companion -- who reveals, in due course, that he is a ghost.
** In "Literature/TheWonderfulBirch" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html link]]), after a WickedWitch had [[ForcedTransformation turned the mother into a sheep]], [[GrandTheftMe taken on her shape]], and gotten the father to agree to kill the sheep, the daughter tells the mother so. The mother tells her not to eat any part of her, but to bury her bones. A birch tree grows from her grave and helps the daughter.
** In "Literature/TheBirdGrip" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223345/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html link]]), the hero arranges for a man's burial and acquires a fox companion -- who reveals, in due course, that he is a ghost.
** In "Literature/TheWonderfulBirch" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html link]]), after a WickedWitch had [[ForcedTransformation turned the mother into a sheep]], [[GrandTheftMe taken on her shape]], and gotten the father to agree to kill the sheep, the daughter tells the mother so. The mother tells her not to eat any part of her, but to bury her bones. A birch tree grows from her grave and helps the daughter.
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* AbductionIsLove: In "Literature/TheBirdGrip", ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223345/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html link]]), the princess's feelings are not touched on until his brothers kill the prince who abducted her, but then she weeps bitterly.
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* LiminalTime: In "Literature/TheWonderfulBirch" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html link]]), the heroine is particularly vulnerable to an abduction and substitution when she gives birth and finds herself at the state between childlessness and maternity.
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* WickedWitch: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]", an evil witch [[BalefulPolymorph turns the heroine's mother into a sheep]] and uses [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] to [[WickedStepmother take her place]]; she has the sheep killed and feeds it to the woman's husband, although the daughter does not eat and manages to bury the bones. Then she does everything in ''Cinderella'' and then, after the wedding, enchants her stepdaughter [[BalefulPolymorph into the form of a reindeer]] after the wedding and puts her own daughter in her place.
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* WickedWitch: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]", an evil witch [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation turns the heroine's mother into a sheep]] and uses [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] to [[WickedStepmother take her place]]; she has the sheep killed and feeds it to the woman's husband, although the daughter does not eat and manages to bury the bones. Then she does everything in ''Cinderella'' and then, after the wedding, enchants her stepdaughter [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation into the form of a reindeer]] after the wedding and puts her own daughter in her place.
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Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish writer and editor, best known for his [[http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a79 numerous]] anthologies of {{fairy tale}}s. Creator/JRRTolkien described them in ''Literature/OnFairyStories'' as the best known and best of the fairy tale collections current in England, though criticizing them for some inclusions.
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Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish writer and editor, best known for his [[http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a79 numerous]] numerous anthologies of {{fairy tale}}s. Creator/JRRTolkien described them in ''Literature/OnFairyStories'' as the best known and best of the fairy tale collections current in England, though criticizing them for some inclusions.
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* ChildMarriageVeto: In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/437.htm Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]]", the king promises marry Don Giovanni to one of his daughters. The older absolutely refuses, but the youngest agrees.
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130021114/http://surlalunefairytales.com:80/eastsunwestmoon/stories/enchsnake.html The Enchanted Snake]]", the king promises the heroine she [[EngagementChallenge can marry the prince if only she saves him]]. Recovered, the prince nevertheless refuses because he has promised himself elsewhere; the heroine, delighted, reveals that she is that woman.
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* GardenGarment: In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/020.htm The Flower Queen's Daughter]]", the title character wears a dress woven out of flowers.
* GhostWriter: Although Andrew Lang edited the Color Fairy Book series and wrote prefaces for each volume, the bulk of the translating and rewriting work on the stories was done by his wife Leonora. She eventually took over the editing work as well, credited simply as "Mrs. Lang".
* GhostWriter: Although Andrew Lang edited the Color Fairy Book series and wrote prefaces for each volume, the bulk of the translating and rewriting work on the stories was done by his wife Leonora. She eventually took over the editing work as well, credited simply as "Mrs. Lang".
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* EngagementChallenge: In ''Prince Prigio'', the king has promised his niece's hand in marriage and the kingdom to whoever brought him the head of a monster. The monster is killed by his rather annoying son Prigio, but the head is brought by a servant. Prigio persuades the king that obeying the letter of his promise would infringe on the right of royalty to say other than what they mean. However, being in love with another woman, he refuses to marry his cousin — who had been engaged to and in love with his dead brother but finds being refused rather insulting. Fortunately, Prigio revives his younger brothers, and so they agree to let him marry his love and the niece to marry his brother.
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* EngagementChallenge: EngagementChallenge:
** In ''Prince Prigio'', the king has promised his niece's hand in marriage and the kingdom to whoever brought him the head of a monster. The monster is killed by his rather annoying son Prigio, but the head is brought by a servant. Prigio persuades the king that obeying the letter of his promise would infringe on the right of royalty to say other than what they mean. However, being in love with another woman, he refuses to marry his cousin — who had been engaged to and in love with his dead brother but finds being refused rather insulting. Fortunately, Prigio revives his younger brothers, and so they agree to let him marry his love and the niece to marry hisbrother.brother.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/079.htm "The Three Princes and their Beasts,"]], the prince gets tokens from the princess.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/396.htm "The Three Dogs,"]] the king made the same promise; the hero killed the dragon and promised to return within a year to marry her, but a coachman made her promise to say that he had killed the dragon. The hero proved himself with his dogs and the teeth of the dragon.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/247.htm "Paperarello,"]] the king offers his daughter's hand to his goose-boy Paperarello if he can bake enough bread for his army (if not, his head will be cut off). Paperarello manages to complete the task, but the princess refuses to marry a goose-boy. It is not until after Paperarello wins three battles for the king while in disguise and later reveals that he is a king himself that the princess falls in love with him. Unfortunately for her, Paperarello is already married to a fairy, and he politely refuses the princess.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/055.htm "The Frog,"]] the old woman tells her sons to test their brides with flax.
--->''Do as you like, but see that you choose good housewives, who will look carefully after your affairs; and, to make certain of this, take with you these three skeins of flax, and give it to them to spin. Whoever spins the best will be my favourite daughter-in-law.'''
** In ''Prince Prigio'', the king has promised his niece's hand in marriage and the kingdom to whoever brought him the head of a monster. The monster is killed by his rather annoying son Prigio, but the head is brought by a servant. Prigio persuades the king that obeying the letter of his promise would infringe on the right of royalty to say other than what they mean. However, being in love with another woman, he refuses to marry his cousin — who had been engaged to and in love with his dead brother but finds being refused rather insulting. Fortunately, Prigio revives his younger brothers, and so they agree to let him marry his love and the niece to marry his
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/079.htm "The Three Princes and their Beasts,"]], the prince gets tokens from the princess.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/396.htm "The Three Dogs,"]] the king made the same promise; the hero killed the dragon and promised to return within a year to marry her, but a coachman made her promise to say that he had killed the dragon. The hero proved himself with his dogs and the teeth of the dragon.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/247.htm "Paperarello,"]] the king offers his daughter's hand to his goose-boy Paperarello if he can bake enough bread for his army (if not, his head will be cut off). Paperarello manages to complete the task, but the princess refuses to marry a goose-boy. It is not until after Paperarello wins three battles for the king while in disguise and later reveals that he is a king himself that the princess falls in love with him. Unfortunately for her, Paperarello is already married to a fairy, and he politely refuses the princess.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/055.htm "The Frog,"]] the old woman tells her sons to test their brides with flax.
--->''Do as you like, but see that you choose good housewives, who will look carefully after your affairs; and, to make certain of this, take with you these three skeins of flax, and give it to them to spin. Whoever spins the best will be my favourite daughter-in-law.'''
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* GhostWriter: Although Andrew Lang edited the Color Fairy Book series and wrote prefaces for each volume, the bulk of the translating and rewriting work on the stories was done by his wife Leonora. She eventually took over the editing work as well, credited simply as "Mrs. Lang".
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* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: In "[[https://fairytalez.com/the-five-wise-words-of-the-guru/ The Five Wise Words of the Guru]]", the protagonist encounters a giant who asks him what he thinks of his beautiful wife. The protagonist's life is spared, and he wins a favor from the giant because he is the first hapless traveler not to try to point out that the wife is a skeleton.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130073820/http://surlalunefairytales.com:80/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]]", the youngest prince comes upon a house haunted by a ghost whom the owner had killed because he could not pay for his meals. Since the host also refused to pay for the funeral, the dead man's ghost haunted the inn every night. The prince pays off the dead man's debts so he can be buried, and later he is aided by a fox who he is actually the dead man's grateful ghost.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]", the main character's dead mother protects her daughter from the latter's stepmother.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130073820/http://surlalunefairytales.com:80/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]]", the youngest prince comes upon a house haunted by a ghost whom the owner had killed because he could not pay for his meals. Since the host also refused to pay for the funeral, the dead man's ghost haunted the inn every night. The prince pays off the dead man's debts so he can be buried, and later he is aided by a fox who he is actually the dead man's grateful ghost.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]", the main character's dead mother protects her daughter from the latter's stepmother.
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* {{Curse}}: In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/185.htm The False Prince and the True]]", the old woman proves to be under a curse. She is actually younger than the young prince who married her.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/392.htm The Golden Mermaid]]", the mermaid refuses to leave the body of the murdered youngest son, who actually carried out the quest, even when his older brothers threaten her.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130073820/http://surlalunefairytales.com:80/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]]", the prince who brings back the bird for his father also brings back a princess; when his brothers try to kill him and threaten her, she does not stop grieving until the prince returns alive.
** In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/392.htm The Golden Mermaid]]", the mermaid refuses to leave the body of the murdered youngest son, who actually carried out the quest, even when his older brothers threaten her.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130073820/http://surlalunefairytales.com:80/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]]", the prince who brings back the bird for his father also brings back a princess; when his brothers try to kill him and threaten her, she does not stop grieving until the prince returns alive.
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* KnightInShiningArmor: In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/044.htm The Golden Crab]]", the king tries to have TheTourney to substitute a bridegroom for the crab his daughter married. Three times the crab-husband shows up in human guise to fight.
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* The story of Yara from Myth/BrazilianFolklore.
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* "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/283.htm The story Story of Yara the Yara]]" from Myth/BrazilianFolklore.
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* EvilMatriarch: In "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/247.htm Paperarello]]", the main character's mother conspires to get rid of her own son.
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* The story of Yara from Myth/BrazilianFolklore.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** In "Literature/JesperWhoHerdedTheHares", the king invented more tasks for Jesper to avoid fulfilling his promise to marry him to his daughter, stopping only when Jesper has some dirt on him.
** Similarly, in "Literature/TheKingWhoWouldBeStrongerThanFate", the King attempts to murder a boy who is destined to marry his daughter.
** In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", the king orders Ferko to perform three tasks at the incitement of his brothers; his own daughter the princess argues with him until he imprisons her in a tower. However, the last task is to summon all the wolves in the kingdom, [[BewareTheNiceOnes the wolves then proceed to kill all the court]], and Ferko frees the princess, marries her, and becomes king.
** In "Literature/JesperWhoHerdedTheHares", the king invented more tasks for Jesper to avoid fulfilling his promise to marry him to his daughter, stopping only when Jesper has some dirt on him.
** Similarly, in "Literature/TheKingWhoWouldBeStrongerThanFate", the King attempts to murder a boy who is destined to marry his daughter.
** In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", the king orders Ferko to perform three tasks at the incitement of his brothers; his own daughter the princess argues with him until he imprisons her in a tower. However, the last task is to summon all the wolves in the kingdom, [[BewareTheNiceOnes the wolves then proceed to kill all the court]], and Ferko frees the princess, marries her, and becomes king.
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* YoungestChildWins:
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/239.htm "Tritill, Litill, and the Birds,"]] the two older brothers are rude to two beggars and a flock of birds and withhold their bread from them. They take shelter in an ogress' cave. The ogress forces them to clean her cave. When they fail, the ogress kills them. The youngest brother shares his food with the beggars and the birds, who later help him clean the ogress' cave. The youngest brother is spared and is rewarded with the lost princess.
** An example of an older stepchild trumping this trope appears in the French fairy tale [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/030.htm "Alphege, or the Green Monkey."]] Alphege, the son of the king's first wife, is the protagonist. When Alphege disappears, his [[WickedStepmother stepmother]] sets up her son as the king. Subverted, though, in that the younger brother is not evil and willingly gives up his throne when Alphege returns.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/398.htm "How the Dragon was Tricked"]] features two brothers. The younger brother is the protagonist and wins over the king's daughter, while the older brother gets nothing.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/353.htm "The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana"]] King Petaldo and Queen Gillette's seven children are kidnapped by Gangana and taken to the island of Bambini. The six older children misbehave, while Cadichon, the youngest, remains obedient. Cadichon is the one who becomes his father's heir after the children are rescued.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/197.htm "The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch,"]] a couple leaves their seven daughters with provisions for three years. The father tells the girls to never open the door. One day, the oldest daughter announces that she wants to go to the market. The youngest daughter warns her that this violates their parents' warning. The six older sisters attack the youngest daughter. Turns out the youngest daughter was right -- a witch breaks into the girls' house after the sisters buy vegetables from the market. The witch eats the six older sisters -- only the youngest one escapes.
** [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/079.htm "The Three Princes and Their Beasts,"]] is a complete aversion: it's the eldest brother who wins the princess, and it's the middle brother who defeats the witch after the eldest and the youngest have failed.
** Subverted in "Prince Prigio", where the title prince is the oldest, doesn't believe in fairy tales and argues that his younger brother should be sent off before him.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/239.htm "Tritill, Litill, and the Birds,"]] the two older brothers are rude to two beggars and a flock of birds and withhold their bread from them. They take shelter in an ogress' cave. The ogress forces them to clean her cave. When they fail, the ogress kills them. The youngest brother shares his food with the beggars and the birds, who later help him clean the ogress' cave. The youngest brother is spared and is rewarded with the lost princess.
** An example of an older stepchild trumping this trope appears in the French fairy tale [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/030.htm "Alphege, or the Green Monkey."]] Alphege, the son of the king's first wife, is the protagonist. When Alphege disappears, his [[WickedStepmother stepmother]] sets up her son as the king. Subverted, though, in that the younger brother is not evil and willingly gives up his throne when Alphege returns.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/398.htm "How the Dragon was Tricked"]] features two brothers. The younger brother is the protagonist and wins over the king's daughter, while the older brother gets nothing.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/353.htm "The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana"]] King Petaldo and Queen Gillette's seven children are kidnapped by Gangana and taken to the island of Bambini. The six older children misbehave, while Cadichon, the youngest, remains obedient. Cadichon is the one who becomes his father's heir after the children are rescued.
** In [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/197.htm "The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch,"]] a couple leaves their seven daughters with provisions for three years. The father tells the girls to never open the door. One day, the oldest daughter announces that she wants to go to the market. The youngest daughter warns her that this violates their parents' warning. The six older sisters attack the youngest daughter. Turns out the youngest daughter was right -- a witch breaks into the girls' house after the sisters buy vegetables from the market. The witch eats the six older sisters -- only the youngest one escapes.
** [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/079.htm "The Three Princes and Their Beasts,"]] is a complete aversion: it's the eldest brother who wins the princess, and it's the middle brother who defeats the witch after the eldest and the youngest have failed.
** Subverted in "Prince Prigio", where the title prince is the oldest, doesn't believe in fairy tales and argues that his younger brother should be sent off before him.
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** [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] in "[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27826/27826-h/27826-h.htm#Page_9 The Blue Parrot]]". The daughter of the swan fairy is shocked that the handsome portrait she had fallen in love with belongs to such a rude man -- but they soon discover that he's an impostor. Rescuing the true king finds him both courteous and handsome. The illustrations play it straight for Hermosa, the swan fairy's daughter, and Riquette, Ismenor's daughter. Hermosa is depicted as beautiful, while Riquette is depicted as ugly and apelike.
** Similarly in "[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2435/2435-h/2435-h.htm#link2H_4_0034 The Colony of Cats]]" -- the older cats rebuke the kittens, saying that all the servants can't be pretty, but Peppina proves to be as bad as she is ugly, where Lizina was pretty and good.
** [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] in "[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27826/27826-h/27826-h.htm#Page_9 The Blue Parrot]]". The daughter of the swan fairy is shocked that the handsome portrait she had fallen in love with belongs to such a rude man -- but they soon discover that he's an impostor. Rescuing the true king finds him both courteous and handsome. The illustrations play it straight for Hermosa, the swan fairy's daughter, and Riquette, Ismenor's daughter. Hermosa is depicted as beautiful, while Riquette is depicted as ugly and apelike.
** Similarly in "[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2435/2435-h/2435-h.htm#link2H_4_0034 The Colony of Cats]]" -- the older cats rebuke the kittens, saying that all the servants can't be pretty, but Peppina proves to be as bad as she is ugly, where Lizina was pretty and good.
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* KingIncognito: In Sicilian fairy tale "[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/247.htm Paperarello]]", the title character is a king who finds work as a goose-boy in another kingdom. Paperarello (derived from Italian ''papera'' meaning "gosling") is the nickname given to him.
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* EngagementChallenge: In ''Prince Prigio'', the king has promised his niece's hand in marriage and the kingdom to whoever brought him the head of a monster. The monster is killed by his rather annoying son Prigio, but the head is brought by a servant. Prigio persuades the king that obeying the letter of his promise would infringe on the right of royalty to say other than what they mean. However, being in love with another woman, he refuses to marry his cousin — who had been engaged to and in love with his dead brother but finds being refused rather insulting. Fortunately, Prigio revives his younger brothers, and so they agree to let him marry his love and the niece to marry his brother.
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* NobleFugitive:
** In "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20200221220552/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com:80/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]]", the princess runs away from home because her overprotective father will not allow her to leave the palace.
** In "The One-Handed Girl" ([[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28096/28096-h/28096-h.htm#Page_185 link]] and [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6746/6746-h/6746-h.htm#2H_4_0024 link]]), the heroine gets married to a prince, but she is forced to go into exile because of her brother's wicked lies.
** In "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20200221220552/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com:80/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]]", the princess runs away from home because her overprotective father will not allow her to leave the palace.
** In "The One-Handed Girl" ([[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28096/28096-h/28096-h.htm#Page_185 link]] and [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6746/6746-h/6746-h.htm#2H_4_0024 link]]), the heroine gets married to a prince, but she is forced to go into exile because of her brother's wicked lies.
