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* WeUsedToBeFriends: The main character and her eventual stepsister were friends and used to play together in the woman's house before their parents' marriage. It is unknown why the stepsister came to hate the former so much.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: The main character and her eventual stepsister were friends and used to play together in the woman's house before their parents' marriage. It is unknown why the stepsister came to hate the former so much.much, although her mother might have simply poisoned her daughter’s mind against the main character after the marriage.
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* CainAndAbel: The stepsister becomes tremendously healous of her sister and participates in her murder.
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* CainAndAbel: The stepsister becomes tremendously healous jealous of her sister and participates in her murder.
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* DotingParent: The woman's "dear little daughter" is given milk to wash in and wine to drink every day when she awakens. Likewise, the woman will not let her go out in the woods without wearing a "splendid fur coat", and without giving her bread, butter and cakes to eat on the way.
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* DotingParent: The woman's "dear little daughter" is given milk to wash in and wine to drink every day when she awakens. Likewise, the woman will not let her go out in the woods without wearing a "splendid fur coat", and without giving her bread, butter butter, and cakes to eat on the way.
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At the baby's christened, the king asked the stepmother what punishment should be inflicted on someone who threw someone in the water. She said, "The wretch deserves nothing better than to be taken and put in a barrel stuck full of nails, and rolled down hill into the water." So the king had it done to her and her daughter.
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At the baby's christened, christening, the king asked the stepmother what punishment should be inflicted on someone who threw someone in the water. She said, "The wretch deserves nothing better than to be taken and put in a barrel stuck full of nails, and rolled down hill into the water." So the king had it done to her and her daughter.
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* OriginalPositionFallacy: After his son's baptism, the king asks his mother-in-law what should be done to someone who drags another person out of their bed and throws them in the water. When the old woman answers "to be taken and put in a barrel stuck full of nails, and rolled down hill into the water", the king reveals he knows how and by whom his wife was murdered, and she has just pronounced her own sentence.
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The furious stepmother sent her stepdaughter to rinse yarn in the frozen river. A king saw her and took her off to marry her. They had a baby. The stepmother and her daughter came to the castle, threw the queen out of the window, and put the daughter in her place. The stepmother refused to let the king see her, and blamed the toads on her illness.
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The furious stepmother sent her stepdaughter to rinse yarn in the frozen river. A king saw her and took her off to marry her. They had a baby. The stepmother and her daughter came to the castle, threw the queen out of the window, window and into a stream, and put the daughter in her place. The stepmother refused to let the king see her, and blamed the toads on her illness.
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* SnipeHunt: The stepmother orders the main character to go out in the woods -in the dead of winter- and to not return without a basket of strawberries. Although her stepdaughter protests that there are no strawberries to be found in winter, the woman -who hopes the poor girl will freeze to death- ignores her cries and shoves her out of the door.
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* SnipeHunt: The stepmother orders the main character to go out in the woods -in woods—in the dead of winter- and winter—and to not return without a basket of strawberries. Although her stepdaughter protests that there are no strawberries to be found in winter, the woman -who woman, who hopes the poor girl will freeze to death- death, ignores her cries and shoves her out of the door.
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* SnipeHunt: The stepmother orders the main character to go out in the woods -in the dead of winter- and to not return without a basket of strawberries. Although her stepdaughter protests that there are no strawberries to be found in winter, the woman -who hopes the poor girl will freeze to death- ignores her cries and shoves her out of the door.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're...ducks.
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Compare with "Literature/BrotherAndSister" "Literature/BrotherAndSister", "Literature/MotherHolle" and "Literature/MotherHolle".
Russian tale "Literature/TheWhiteDuck".
* CainAndAbel: The stepsister becomes tremendously healous of her sister and participates in her murder.
* DontGoInTheWoods: The protagonist does not want to go to the woods near her house because she would freeze to death. They are also inhabited by dangerous magical beings.
* DotingParent: The woman's "dear little daughter" is given milk to wash in and wine to drink every day when she awakens. Likewise, the woman will not let her go out in the woods without wearing a "splendid fur coat", and without giving her bread, butter and cakes to eat on the way.
* DotingParent: The woman's "dear little daughter" is given milk to wash in and wine to drink every day when she awakens. Likewise, the woman will not let her go out in the woods without wearing a "splendid fur coat", and without giving her bread, butter and cakes to eat on the way.
* TheFairFolk: The titular characters seem to be some kind of leprechauns or dwarves: they are magical, tiny humanoid creatures who live in the woods and are willing to reward or punish humans who stumble upon their home.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When the king asks the stepmother how she would punish someone who drags another person out of their bed and throws them in the water, the stepmother describes an awful punishment. Then the king replies she has spoken her own sentence.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When the king asks the stepmother how she would punish someone who drags another person out of their bed and throws them in the water, the stepmother describes an awful punishment. Then the king replies she has spoken her own sentence.
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* TheLostWoods: Where KillAndReplace: The stepmother murders the little men live.main character and attempts to replace her with her own daughter.
* OffingTheOffspring: The stepmother attempts to murder the main character several times.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The murdered queen's spirit haunts the castle, taking the shape of a duck while she swims up the gutters where she was thrown in, and reverting to her human shape when she visits her baby.
* ParentalFavoritism: The stepmother has her birth daughter completely pampered and spoiled whereas she hates her stepsister to death.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The murdered queen's spirit haunts the castle, taking the shape of a duck while she swims up the gutters where she was thrown in, and reverting to her human shape when she visits her baby.
* ParentalFavoritism: The stepmother has her birth daughter completely pampered and spoiled whereas she hates her stepsister to death.
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* {{Pride}}: The stepsister.
* RagsToRoyalty: The heroine.
* RuleOfThree: Three visits from the heroine's ghost,three swings of the king's sword. Both of the girls also get three rewards or curses placed upon them. And, of course, the three little men themselves.
* RagsToRoyalty: The heroine.
* RuleOfThree: Three visits from the heroine's ghost,three swings of the king's sword. Both of the girls also get three rewards or curses placed upon them. And, of course, the three little men themselves.
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* {{Pride}}: The stepsister.
stepsister's pride and jealosy causes her to try to duplicate the results of seeking strawberries in the winter woods.
* RagsToRoyalty: Theheroine.
main character is an abused peasant who gets married to a king.
*RuleOfThree: Three visits ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The stepsister is punished by having a toad hop from her mouth every times she speaks.
-->And when she opened her mouth, and was about to tell her mother what had happened to her in theheroine's ghost,three swings wood, with every word she said, a toad sprang out of the king's sword. her mouth, so that every one was seized with horror of her.
* RuleOfThree:
** The main character stumbles upon three little men.
** Bothof the girls also get three rewards or curses placed upon them. And, of course, the them.
** The queen's ghost is seen three times.
** The king must swing his sword three times to bring his wife back.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The three littlemen themselves.men's only role is to reward and punish the main character and her stepsister, respectively.
* RagsToRoyalty: The
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** The main character stumbles upon three little men.
** Both
** The queen's ghost is seen three times.
** The king must swing his sword three times to bring his wife back.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The three little
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The heroine's father vanishes completely from the story after he's married the stepmother.
* WickedStepmother: Our villain.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: SpoiledBrat: When the stepsister goes to meet the little men, she barges into their house without knocking on the door and without giving them a greeting and sits herself down by their oven. When she starts eating her lunch, the little men ask her to share her food, but she refuses to give them any. When they ask her to sweep their back door, she tells them she is not their housemaid. Finally, when she sees that they were not going to giving her anything, she leaves without saying goodbye and without realizing that her entitled, rude behaviour has gotten them mad.
* TooDumbToLive: Rather than ingratiating herself with her stepdaughter and enjoying the perks of becoming the king's mother-in-law, the stepmother murders and tries to replace the queen with her own daughter. Even if the queen's ghost had not haunted the castle, the king would have discovered their hoax before long.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Theheroine's main character and her eventual stepsister were friends and used to play together in the woman's house before their parents' marriage. It is unknown why the stepsister came to hate the former so much.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** The main character's father vanishes completely from the story afterhe's married marrying his second wife.
** The titular characters are not mentioned again after cursing thestepmother.
stepdaughter.
* WickedStepmother:Our villain.
The stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the woods on an impossible task to kill her. When she returns, having won magical rewards with her good manners, she sends her daughter after and is furious when her ill-tempered daughter is justly punished. When the stepdaughter marries the king, she tries to murder her and replace her with her own daughter.
* TooDumbToLive: Rather than ingratiating herself with her stepdaughter and enjoying the perks of becoming the king's mother-in-law, the stepmother murders and tries to replace the queen with her own daughter. Even if the queen's ghost had not haunted the castle, the king would have discovered their hoax before long.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The
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* {{Curse}}: The stepsister has three of them laid upon her for her selfishness and laziness.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Being rolled downhill in a barrel stuck full of nails isn't pretty.
* ImpossibleTask: Gathering strawberries in the dead of winter.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Being rolled downhill in a barrel stuck full of nails isn't pretty.
* ImpossibleTask: Gathering strawberries in the dead of winter.
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* {{Curse}}: The stepsister has three of them laid upon her becomes thrice-accursed for her selfishness and laziness.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:Being rolled downhill in The evil stepmother and her daughter are "put into a barrel stuck full of nails isn't pretty.
nails, and then rolled downhill into the water."
* ImpossibleTask:Gathering strawberries The stepmother orders the main character to go out into the woods in the dead of winter.winter and not return without a basketful of strawberries, expecting her to freeze to death.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The King asks the stepmother what should be done with someone who murders another person by throwing them into the water. The woman suggests a particularly painful execution, unaware that she is choosing her own sentence.
-->The king was elated, but he kept the queen hidden in a room until the Sunday when the baby was to be baptized. At the baptism he said, "What does a person deserve who drags someone out of bed and throws him into the water?"\\
The old woman answered, "The scoundrel deserves nothing better than to be put into a barrel stuck full of nails, and then rolled downhill into the water."\\
Then the king said, "You have pronounced your own sentence."\\
He ordered such a barrel to be brought. The old woman and her daughter were put into it, and the top was hammered shut. Then the barrel was rolled downhill until it fell into the river.
-->The king was elated, but he kept the queen hidden in a room until the Sunday when the baby was to be baptized. At the baptism he said, "What does a person deserve who drags someone out of bed and throws him into the water?"\\
The old woman answered, "The scoundrel deserves nothing better than to be put into a barrel stuck full of nails, and then rolled downhill into the water."\\
Then the king said, "You have pronounced your own sentence."\\
He ordered such a barrel to be brought. The old woman and her daughter were put into it, and the top was hammered shut. Then the barrel was rolled downhill until it fell into the river.
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"The Three Little Men in the Wood" is a German FairyTale collected by the Creator/BrothersGrimm.
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"The Three Little Men in the Wood" (German: ''Die drei Männlein im Walde'') is a German FairyTale collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm and published in their ''Children and Household's Tales'' (''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'') collection. It is the Creator/BrothersGrimm.
number 13 tale.
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Full text [[http://www.[[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/the_three_little_men_in_the_wood here]], [[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm013.html here]], [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52521/52521-h/52521-h.htm#hdr_25 here]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20191102082102/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html here]]. here]].
Compare"Literature/BrotherAndSister".with "Literature/BrotherAndSister" and "Literature/MotherHolle".
In the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, it is a Type 403B, "The Black and the White Bride" and 480, "The Kind and the Unkind Girls".
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In the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, it is a Type 403B, "The Black and the White Bride" and 480, "The Kind and the Unkind Girls".
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* BackFromTheDead: And all it took was for the king to brandish his sword three times over her.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played straight. In fact, one of the heroine's rewards for her kindness is to grow ''more'' beautiful with each passing day.
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* BackFromTheDead: And all it took was for The Queen is revived when the king to brandish King swings his sword over her ghost three times over her.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness:Played straight. In fact, one One of the heroine's rewards for her kindness is to grow ''more'' more beautiful with each passing day; whereas her mean-spirited, selfish and lazy stepsister is punished to become progressively uglier.
-->"What shall we give her as she is so good, and has shared her bread with us?" Then said the first, "My gift is, that she shall every day grow more beautiful."\\
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"What shall we give her as she is so naughty, and has a wicked envious heart, that will never let her do a good turn to any one?" The first said, "I grant that she may grow uglier every day."
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-->"What shall we give her as she is so good, and has shared her bread with us?" Then said the first, "My gift is, that she shall every day grow more beautiful."\\
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"What shall we give her as she is so naughty, and has a wicked envious heart, that will never let her do a good turn to any one?" The first said, "I grant that she may grow uglier every day."
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Speaking The stepdaughter is polite, sharing her food with the little men.men and acceding to their requests, and the daughter is not. The former is rewarded with beauty, gold, a wealthy groom, and strawberries. The latter is punished with ugliness, unpleasantness, and loneliness. And she has no strawberries.
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A widow with a daughter persuaded the daughter of a widower to persuade her father to marry her. Then she oppressed her. Finally, she sent her into the winter woods with orders to gather strawberries. There, she met three little men, who asked what had happened to her, asked her to share her food, and then asked her to sweep off their back step. When she went, they decided she would grow more beautiful every day, have gold fall from her mouth when she spoke, and marry a king. Also, while she swept, she found strawberries.
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A widow with a daughter persuaded the daughter of a widower to persuade her father to marry her. the widow. Then she oppressed her.her stepdaughter. Finally, she sent her into the winter woods with orders to gather strawberries. There, she met three little men, who asked what had happened to her, asked her to share her food, and then asked her to sweep off their back step. When she went, they decided she would grow more beautiful every day, have gold fall from her mouth when she spoke, and marry a king. Also, while she swept, she found strawberries.
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* FrogsAndToads: As the stepsister discovered, insulting three little men is unwise.
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* BackFromTheDead: And all it took was for the king to brandish his sword three times over her.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played straight. In fact, one of the heroine's rewards for her kindness is to grow ''more'' beautiful with each passing day.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played straight. In fact, one of the heroine's rewards for her kindness is to grow ''more'' beautiful with each passing day.
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* {{Curse}}: On the stepsister.The stepsister has three of them laid upon her for her selfishness and laziness.
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* RuleOfThree: Threevisits, three visits from the heroine's ghost,three swings of the sword.king's sword. Both of the girls also get three rewards or curses placed upon them. And, of course, the three little men themselves.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Having gold coins fall out of your mouth with every word you speak may be pretty cool at first. After a while it's going to get really inconvenient.
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'''''The Three Little Men In The Wood''''' is a German FairyTale collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.
A widow with a daughter persuaded the daughter of a widower to persuade her father to marry her. Then she oppressed her. Finally, she sent her into the winter woods with orders to gather strawberries. There, she met three little men, who asked what had happened to her, asked her to share her food, and then asked her to sweep off their back step. When she went, they decided she would grow more beautiful every day, have gold fall from her mouth when she spoke, and marry a king. Also, while she swept, she found strawberries.
Her arrogant stepsister insisted on going after the strawberries. She was rude to the little men and refused to share her food. So they cursed her to grow uglier, have toads drop from her mouth, and die a miserable death. She never found strawberries.
The furious stepmother sent her stepdaughter to rinse yarn in the frozen river. A king saw her and took her off to marry her. They had a baby. The stepmother and her daughter came to the castle, threw the queen out of the window, and put the daughter in her place. The stepmother refused to let the king see her, and blamed the toads on her illness.
A scullion, however, saw a duck swim up and ask what happened in the castle. Then she became a woman again and nursed the baby. On her third visit, she told the scullion to tell the king to swing his sword three times over her while on the threshold. This brought her back to life.
At the baby's christened, the king asked the stepmother what punishment should be inflicted on someone who threw someone in the water. She said, "The wretch deserves nothing better than to be taken and put in a barrel stuck full of nails, and rolled down hill into the water." So the king had it done to her and her daughter.
Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html here]]. Compare ''Literature/BrotherAndSister''.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Under the stepmother's rule.
* {{Curse}}: On the stepsister.
* FrogsAndToads: As the stepsister discovered, insulting three little men is unwise.
* ImpossibleTask: Gathering strawberries.
* TheLostWoods: Where the little men live.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're -- ducks.
* {{Pride}}: The stepsister.
* RagsToRoyalty: The daughter.
* RuleOfThree: Three visits, three swings of the sword.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Speaking with the little men.
* WickedStepmother: Our villain.
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A widow with a daughter persuaded the daughter of a widower to persuade her father to marry her. Then she oppressed her. Finally, she sent her into the winter woods with orders to gather strawberries. There, she met three little men, who asked what had happened to her, asked her to share her food, and then asked her to sweep off their back step. When she went, they decided she would grow more beautiful every day, have gold fall from her mouth when she spoke, and marry a king. Also, while she swept, she found strawberries.
Her arrogant stepsister insisted on going after the strawberries. She was rude to the little men and refused to share her food. So they cursed her to grow uglier, have toads drop from her mouth, and die a miserable death. She never found strawberries.
The furious stepmother sent her stepdaughter to rinse yarn in the frozen river. A king saw her and took her off to marry her. They had a baby. The stepmother and her daughter came to the castle, threw the queen out of the window, and put the daughter in her place. The stepmother refused to let the king see her, and blamed the toads on her illness.
A scullion, however, saw a duck swim up and ask what happened in the castle. Then she became a woman again and nursed the baby. On her third visit, she told the scullion to tell the king to swing his sword three times over her while on the threshold. This brought her back to life.
At the baby's christened, the king asked the stepmother what punishment should be inflicted on someone who threw someone in the water. She said, "The wretch deserves nothing better than to be taken and put in a barrel stuck full of nails, and rolled down hill into the water." So the king had it done to her and her daughter.
Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html here]]. Compare ''Literature/BrotherAndSister''.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Under the stepmother's rule.
* {{Curse}}: On the stepsister.
* FrogsAndToads: As the stepsister discovered, insulting three little men is unwise.
* ImpossibleTask: Gathering strawberries.
* TheLostWoods: Where the little men live.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're -- ducks.
* {{Pride}}: The stepsister.
* RagsToRoyalty: The daughter.
* RuleOfThree: Three visits, three swings of the sword.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Speaking with the little men.
* WickedStepmother: Our villain.
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