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* RuleOfThree: The mother gives the princess a handkerchief with three drops of blood as magical protection. There are three days of the princess's servitude as a goose girl; or at least three incidents of talking-horse-head and cap-blowing-wind-incantation, before the truth comes out.

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* RuleOfThree: The mother gives the princess a handkerchief with three drops of blood as magical protection. There are three days of the princess's servitude as a goose girl; girl, or at least three incidents of talking-horse-head and cap-blowing-wind-incantation, before the truth comes out.

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* ExactWords: She promised not to tell a single living creature. The stove didn't count.



* ExtremeDoormat: The princess is too humble to reprimand her maidservant for disobeying her, even when she has her mother's protective charm still in her hand.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: The title job.

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* ExtremeDoormat: ExactWords: She promised not to tell a single living creature. The stove didn't count.
* ExtremeDoormat
**The
princess is too humble to reprimand her maidservant for disobeying her, even when she has her mother's protective charm still in her hand.
hand. She eventually shows a little more agency, if only to save her hair from the goose boy's grabby hands.
** Falada, despite being a talking horse, says and does nothing when the servant usurps the princess's role. He also (apparently) does not speak up to save his own life. He speaks more when dead than alive!
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: The Subverted with the title job.job: going out with the goose boy is easy work compared to what the princess could have been saddled with, but she never expected to have to take a job at all.



* TheGoodKing: The prince's father seems to be this.

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* TheGoodKing: The prince's father seems is the one who resolves the story, first by listening to be this.the goose boy's story, then by verifying that the strange girl is the real princess and the other is an imposter.

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