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Contrast [[Wicked Stepmother]].
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== Fairy Tales ==
* Some "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]"-type tales have one, such the [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Disney version]]. [[Charles Perrault]]'s version appears to be the [[Trope Codifier]]. In folklore collection, she is far more often helped by her dead mother, or something associated with her dead mother.
* In "[[Adalmina's Pearl|Adalminas Pearl]]", the princess has two.
* In "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", she had twelve, or seven, in Perrault or Grimm respectively. However, after they made their initially good wishes, the fairies do never return to aid Sleeping Beauty. Many variants—such as "[[Sun, Moon,
* In Henriette-Julie de Murat's literary fairy tale "Bearskin", the princess had a fairy godmother who is quite offended that she was not consulted about her goddaughter's marriage and so refuses to help for a time.
* In "[[Donkeyskin]]", the godmother delivers advices rather than gifts.
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* ''[[The Slipper and The Rose]]'', being a musical adaptation of "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", of course has a Fairy Godmother.
** Ditto the Rogers and Hammerstein ''[[Cinderella (film)|Cinderella]]'' movie musical.
* Played with in ''[[Maleficent]]'' when Aurora, unaware that the three women who've raised her are the literal fairies, decides that Maleficent (whom she knows has been watching over her for years) is her Fairy Godmother. Maleficent's response is basically [[Sure, Let's Go with That]] -- but by the end of the film she [[Becoming the Mask|ha become for all practical purposes the real thing]].
== Literature ==
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