![]() As the girl was so kind and compassionate toward her, the fairy blessed her with having either a jewel, a precious metal, or a pretty flower fall from her mouth whenever she spoke. The girl politely consented and after giving it, she found that the woman was a fairy, who had taken the guise of a crone to test the character of mortals. One day while drawing water from the well, an old woman asked the younger girl for a drink of water. Jealous and bitter, the widow and her favourite daughter abused and mistreated the younger girl. Summary Ī bad-tempered old widow had two daughters her older daughter, Fanny was disagreeable and proud, but looked and behaved like her mother, and therefore was her favorite child her younger daughter, Rose was sweet, courteous, and beautiful, but resembled her late father. Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée. ![]() Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume, Frau Holle or Mrs.Holle, The Three Heads in the Well, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch, and The Two Caskets. It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to Cinderella. In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite. ![]() ![]() Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". ![]()
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