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[[File:oestenforSolVestenforMaane_9414.jpg|frame|"[[Waking Up Elsewhere|She was lying on a small green patch]] in the midst of [[The Lost Woods|a dark, thick wood.]] By her side lay the [[Memento MacGuffin|self-same bundle of rags which she had brought with her from her own home.]] So when she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, [[Fantastic Angst|and wept till she was weary]], [[The Quest|she set out on her way.]]" ]]
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▲'''''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/index.html East of the Sun and West of the Moon]''''' is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Fairy Tale]].
It involves a white bear that offers to take the youngest child to fix a family's poor situation. They accept and the bear takes the young girl to a castle where a man slept in the same room as her at night in the dark. As such, she could not see who it was. When she was homesick she was allowed to go home with one condition: she is not allowed to stay with her mother alone. Of course, the young girl doesn't listen and takes a magical candle from her mother. When she returned to the castle, she was able to see the face of the man that has been visiting her bed at night - who was actually the bear. After a [[My God What Have You Done|what have you done moment]] he gets taken away by his [[Our Trolls Are Different|troll]] stepmother to marry a troll princess. Before leaving, he tells her that he will be at a land East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
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She sets off to find him and meets a woman and her daughter on the way. This woman gives her a golden apple and lets her borrow a horse. Next, she meets a woman who gives her a golden carding comb. A third woman gives her a golden spinning wheel and tells her that she should go find the east wind who might take her to the place that she seeks. The east wind could not help her as he never blew that far so he tells her to visit the west. After facing the same scenario, she visits the south and finally the north wind. The girl then gives up all of her golden items to the princess in exchange for a night with the prince. On the first two nights, she could not wake him. Eventually the servants tell the prince about the girl and he tosses away the drink - actually sleeping potion - from the princess that night. In the end, the girl defeats the trolls (the stepmother and the princess) by washing out the tallow of one of the prince's shirts, because the prince refuses to marry someone unable to do something so simple. The story ends with [[Stuff Blowing Up|all the trolls exploding]]. Everyone lives happily ever after.
It's Aarne-Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020042454/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/other.html a type of which there are many variants].
For a modern novel version, see ''[[East]]'' by Edith Pattou.
A number of famous illustrated versions of this fairy tale have been published, including by [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633668.East_of_the_Sun_and_West_of_the_Moon Mercer Mayer], among others. All of the versions are [[Continuity Snarl|slightly different]].
Not to be confused with the old standard song of the same title, originally written for the [[Princeton Triangle Club]].
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* [[Animorphism]] / [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: The result of a [[Curse]] placed upon the prince by his [[Wicked Stepmother]].
* [[Beast and Beauty]]: For a while.
* [[Big Fancy Castle]]: Where the bear takes her.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: The prince nearly always has [[What Beautiful Eyes!|gorgeous blue eyes]], yet rarely is his hair color even ''mentioned'', which is possibly so he doesn't outshine his wife in the looks department.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: In this and many of the story variations, the groom's animal form is often white. This ties into the cross-cultural concept that white animals are believed to have magical properties.
* [[Curse]]
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Don Bluth was preparing for an [[Animated Adaptation]] for this, but the project was scrapped as his company went bankrupt after the box-office failure of ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]''.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: The bride is the youngest child in [[Massive
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