The Three Heads of the Well
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The Three Heads in the Well is a fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales.[1]
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Folk tale | |
Name | The Three Heads of the Well |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 480, "The Kind and Unkind Girls" |
Region | England |
Published in | English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892) |
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It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type ATU 480, The Kind and Unkind Girls. Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume, Diamonds and Toads, Mother Hulda, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch, and The Two Caskets.[2] Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.[3]