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* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/books/slavonic/wratislaw/beautifuldamsel.html The Beautiful Damsel and the Wicked Old Woman]]", a prince marries a peasant girl because she is beautiful, weeps pearls and brings flowers when she can smile, and sews exquisitely, but when she is coming to the wedding with an old woman, the woman gouges her eyes out and thrust her into a cave, to replace her with her own daughter. But the girl weeps pearls and buys back her eyes, and when she can see, she sews a handkerchief that the prince recognizes, so she regains him.
* In "Literature/TheBlueMountains", the hero, a soldier, wins the princess. The same happens in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]]", where the hero is a peasant boy.
* In [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/31girlwithouthands.html The Girl Without Hands]]", the miller's daughter marries a king; then the Devil conspires against her, she is driven out to the wilderness, but the king follows her and she regains her place.
* In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", the peasant lad Ferko marries the princess and becomes king
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/fortunee.html Fortunée]]", the title character is a peasant girl who is in conflict with her brother over a magical pot of pinks. It turns out that Fortunée is actually a princess who was sent away because her father threatened to kill her mother if she had another girl (she already had six daughters) and that the pot of pinks is a prince who is also her cousin.
* In "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_(fairy_tale) Starlight]]", the main character is a slave who is revealed to be an Arabian princess.
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/books/portugual/pedroso/maidenwithrose.html The Maiden with the Rose on her Forehead]]", a woman finds a beautiful girl in enchanted sleep in her husband's house. Not knowing she is his niece, she enslaves her, but her husband finds out and restores the girl to her proper station. A similar plot is found in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sleepingbeauty/stories/youngslave.html The Young Slave]]".
* In "Literature/TheGooseGirl", the heroine's servant overpowers her and makes her promise not to tell anyone; then the servant passes herself off as the princess and has the heroine turned into a goose-girl. She escapes when she [[ExactWords confesses to a stove]] rather than a person.
* GenderFlip Cinderellas, Cinderlad or Askeladden, win princesses in such tales as "Literature/ThePrincessOnTheGlassHill", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/stories/bootstroll.html Boots and the Troll]]", and "Literature/TheSevenFoals".
* "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/molly.html Molly Whuppie]]" does not only win the king's son for herself, but his older brothers for her older sisters.
* In "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon", the woodcutter's youngest daughter marries a [[TalkingAnimal bear]] who proves to be a prince.
* In " Literature/TheDancingWaterTheSingingAppleAndTheSpeakingBird " and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/96threelittlebirds.html The Three Little Birds]]", the king's [[WonderChild children]] are abandoned and grow up in ignorance of their birth, until a magic bird informs the king and children of the truth.
* In Creator/JosephJacobs' "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]", Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/russianwondertales/vasiliiunlucky.html Vasilii the Unlucky]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", "Literature/TheKingWhoWouldBeStrongerThanFate", and many other fairy tales, a rich child is [[SelfFulfillingProphecies destined]] to marry a poor child, and the poor child always succeeds.
* In "Literature/BrotherAndSister", when the king find Sister in the woods, with her transformed brother, he marries her.
* A central portion of the "Persecuted Heroine" fairy tale type.
** Literature/{{Cinderella}} variants, such as "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/hearthcat.html The Hearth Cat]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/maidenfish.html The Maiden and The Fish]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/sheep.html The Sharp Grey Sheep]]", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]".
** Variants which follow ''Literature/SnowWhite'', such as "Literature/{{Catskin}}", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/katie.html Katie Woodencloak]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/rashin.html Rashin-Coatie]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]]", [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-Of-Fur]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/kingdaughter.html The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter]]", and "Literature/CapORushes".
* In "Literature/MaidMaleen", after the princess falls in love with a prince [[ParentalMarriageVeto her father does not approve of]], the father imprisons her in a tower. Then her father loses his kingdom and is unable to get her out. She and her maid burrow out and live in appalling poverty until she can find her way to the prince's kingdom and win him back.
-->''Oh, nettle-plant,\
Little nettle-plant,\\
What dost thou here alone?\\
I have known the time\\
When I ate thee unboiled,\\
When I ate thee unroasted.''
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of The Black Cow]]", the hero ends up marrying a princess because of his gold hair.
* In "Literature/CatherineAndHerFate", Catherine, having chosen to be miserable in youth and happy in old age rather than the other way round, ends up as a SculleryMaid -- except that her Fate, being an AnthropomorphicPersonification, is always showing up and wrecking her position for seven years. Finally, however, her Fate gives her a MacGuffin, and when the king needs it, he decides to give her its weight in gold. It takes his whole treasury, he demands the story, and when she is done, he decides to marry her.
* In "Literature/AdalminasPearl", the cruel princess loses her [[MacGuffin enchanted pearl]] and becomes a plain, dumb peasant girl. Thanks to a back up enchantment, her heart however turns good now, and stays that even after she gets the pearl back.
* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/075.htm The Grateful Prince]]'', the prince goes to rescue [[DamselInDistress a peasant girl who was captive to an ogre]] because his father had promised him to the ogre, and substituted to the girl. After he does, he marries her.
* In ''Literature/TheThreeLittleMenInTheWood'', the stepdaughter marries a king.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/littleannie.html Little Annie the Goose-Girl]]'', Annie declares early that she means to have the king's son, and gets him in the end.
-->''so little Annie the goose-girl came to have the king of England's son for her husband after all, just because it was written that she should have him.''
* Ironically, despite her TropeCodifier status above, Literature/{{Cinderella}} herself would fall more precisely under "Goose Girl Style." As Creator/JaneYolen has pointed out, Cinderella was ''already'' nobility and/or an heiress, just made to wear rags and work a menial job by her WickedStepmother.
-->"'Literature/{{Cinderella}}' is not a story of rags to riches, but rather riches recovered; not poor girl into princess but rather rich girl (or princess) rescued from improper or wicked enslavement."
* In "Literature/TheTwoBrothers", collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, the son of a poor broom-maker rescues a princess from a dragon and marries her.
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* In "Literature/TheBlueMountains", the hero, a soldier, wins the princess. The same happens in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]]", where the hero is a peasant boy.
* In [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/31girlwithouthands.html The Girl Without Hands]]", the miller's daughter marries a king; then the Devil conspires against her, she is driven out to the wilderness, but the king follows her and she regains her place.
* In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", the peasant lad Ferko marries the princess and becomes king
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/fortunee.html Fortunée]]", the title character is a peasant girl who is in conflict with her brother over a magical pot of pinks. It turns out that Fortunée is actually a princess who was sent away because her father threatened to kill her mother if she had another girl (she already had six daughters) and that the pot of pinks is a prince who is also her cousin.
* In "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_(fairy_tale) Starlight]]", the main character is a slave who is revealed to be an Arabian princess.
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/books/portugual/pedroso/maidenwithrose.html The Maiden with the Rose on her Forehead]]", a woman finds a beautiful girl in enchanted sleep in her husband's house. Not knowing she is his niece, she enslaves her, but her husband finds out and restores the girl to her proper station. A similar plot is found in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sleepingbeauty/stories/youngslave.html The Young Slave]]".
* In "Literature/TheGooseGirl", the heroine's servant overpowers her and makes her promise not to tell anyone; then the servant passes herself off as the princess and has the heroine turned into a goose-girl. She escapes when she [[ExactWords confesses to a stove]] rather than a person.
* GenderFlip Cinderellas, Cinderlad or Askeladden, win princesses in such tales as "Literature/ThePrincessOnTheGlassHill", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/stories/bootstroll.html Boots and the Troll]]", and "Literature/TheSevenFoals".
* "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/molly.html Molly Whuppie]]" does not only win the king's son for herself, but his older brothers for her older sisters.
* In "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon", the woodcutter's youngest daughter marries a [[TalkingAnimal bear]] who proves to be a prince.
* In " Literature/TheDancingWaterTheSingingAppleAndTheSpeakingBird " and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/96threelittlebirds.html The Three Little Birds]]", the king's [[WonderChild children]] are abandoned and grow up in ignorance of their birth, until a magic bird informs the king and children of the truth.
* In Creator/JosephJacobs' "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]", Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/russianwondertales/vasiliiunlucky.html Vasilii the Unlucky]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", "Literature/TheKingWhoWouldBeStrongerThanFate", and many other fairy tales, a rich child is [[SelfFulfillingProphecies destined]] to marry a poor child, and the poor child always succeeds.
* In "Literature/BrotherAndSister", when the king find Sister in the woods, with her transformed brother, he marries her.
* A central portion of the "Persecuted Heroine" fairy tale type.
** Literature/{{Cinderella}} variants, such as "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/hearthcat.html The Hearth Cat]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/maidenfish.html The Maiden and The Fish]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/sheep.html The Sharp Grey Sheep]]", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]".
** Variants which follow ''Literature/SnowWhite'', such as "Literature/{{Catskin}}", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/katie.html Katie Woodencloak]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/rashin.html Rashin-Coatie]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]]", [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-Of-Fur]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/kingdaughter.html The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter]]", and "Literature/CapORushes".
* In "Literature/MaidMaleen", after the princess falls in love with a prince [[ParentalMarriageVeto her father does not approve of]], the father imprisons her in a tower. Then her father loses his kingdom and is unable to get her out. She and her maid burrow out and live in appalling poverty until she can find her way to the prince's kingdom and win him back.
-->''Oh, nettle-plant,\
Little nettle-plant,\\
What dost thou here alone?\\
I have known the time\\
When I ate thee unboiled,\\
When I ate thee unroasted.''
* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of The Black Cow]]", the hero ends up marrying a princess because of his gold hair.
* In "Literature/CatherineAndHerFate", Catherine, having chosen to be miserable in youth and happy in old age rather than the other way round, ends up as a SculleryMaid -- except that her Fate, being an AnthropomorphicPersonification, is always showing up and wrecking her position for seven years. Finally, however, her Fate gives her a MacGuffin, and when the king needs it, he decides to give her its weight in gold. It takes his whole treasury, he demands the story, and when she is done, he decides to marry her.
* In "Literature/AdalminasPearl", the cruel princess loses her [[MacGuffin enchanted pearl]] and becomes a plain, dumb peasant girl. Thanks to a back up enchantment, her heart however turns good now, and stays that even after she gets the pearl back.
* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/075.htm The Grateful Prince]]'', the prince goes to rescue [[DamselInDistress a peasant girl who was captive to an ogre]] because his father had promised him to the ogre, and substituted to the girl. After he does, he marries her.
* In ''Literature/TheThreeLittleMenInTheWood'', the stepdaughter marries a king.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/littleannie.html Little Annie the Goose-Girl]]'', Annie declares early that she means to have the king's son, and gets him in the end.
-->''so little Annie the goose-girl came to have the king of England's son for her husband after all, just because it was written that she should have him.''
* Ironically, despite her TropeCodifier status above, Literature/{{Cinderella}} herself would fall more precisely under "Goose Girl Style." As Creator/JaneYolen has pointed out, Cinderella was ''already'' nobility and/or an heiress, just made to wear rags and work a menial job by her WickedStepmother.
-->"'Literature/{{Cinderella}}' is not a story of rags to riches, but rather riches recovered; not poor girl into princess but rather rich girl (or princess) rescued from improper or wicked enslavement."
* In "Literature/TheTwoBrothers", collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, the son of a poor broom-maker rescues a princess from a dragon and marries her.
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