Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales
711: The Twin Sisters
Description
The deformed maiden disenchanted. A queen is childless and gets from a witch advice how to have a child, but she breaks a condition connected with the advice, and has two girls, a very beautiful one and one deformed (with an animal's head). The ugly…
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| Text title | ATU | Language | Author | Origin | Publication Date |
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| Lurvehette | 711 | Norwegian | Asbjørnsen & Moe | Norway | 1841 |
| Riquet à la Houppe | 711 | French | Charles Perrault | France | 1697 |
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