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== Fairy Tales ==
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]'s ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140405134935/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/6faithfuljohn.html Faithful John]'', the dying king orders Faithful John to prevent his son from going into a certain room. When this fails and the new king falls in love with a portrait he sees there, Faithful John accompanies him, and when he learns of perils, protects the king and his bride at the price of looking like a madman. Finally, to avoid execution, he explains, and is turned to stone.
* In [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718140257/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/tattercoats.html Tattercoats]'', Tattercoats is ignored by her grandfather and abused by all the servants, except for one faithful nurse, who looks after her all the time she is growing up.
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/116.htm The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen]'', it is an old servant woman who tells the knight that {{spoiler|the thief's last tale is true, and furthermore that the knight is the baby he saved during it}}.
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