The Three Fairies
1634 Fairy tale by Giambattista Basile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Three Fairies" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.[1]
It is Aarne–Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls, and appears to stem from an oral source.[2] Others of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Mother Hulda", "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".[3] Another literary variant is "Aurore and Aimée".[2] In this tale, like many others of this type, the heroine descends into another world where she is tested.[2]