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* The stepmother in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130906231232/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/frogking/stories/wellworld.html The Well At the World's End]'' sends her stepdaughter to the title well with a sieve. |
* The stepmother in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130906231232/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/frogking/stories/wellworld.html The Well At the World's End]'' sends her stepdaughter to the title well with a sieve. |
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* The stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the winter woods to get strawberries in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140324190359/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html The Three Little Men In the Wood].'' |
* The stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the winter woods to get strawberries in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140324190359/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html The Three Little Men In the Wood].'' |
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* One story of the peasant's clever daughter is Grimms' ''[ |
* One story of the peasant's clever daughter is Grimms' ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140704014430/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/94peasantcleverdaughter.html The Peasant's Clever Daughter]'' |
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* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/116.htm The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen]'' the stepmother plays a game of cards with her stepsons so she can force them on an impossible quest. |
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/116.htm The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen]'' the stepmother plays a game of cards with her stepsons so she can force them on an impossible quest. |
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* In the Russian [[Fairy Tale]] ''Go To I Know Not Where, Bring Back I Know Not What'', the command in the title was used to get rid of a husband. (Fortunately, his wife could turn into a bird and fly off.) |
* In the Russian [[Fairy Tale]] ''Go To I Know Not Where, Bring Back I Know Not What'', the command in the title was used to get rid of a husband. (Fortunately, his wife could turn into a bird and fly off.) |
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