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* The Korean folk tale "The Pheasant and the Gong": a woodcutter on a long journey gets lost in the forest. Tired and hungry, he stumbles upon a mansion, whose only occupant [[Schmuck Bait|is a beautiful, charming, helpful young woman]]. It turns out she is the spirit of a [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|snake]] he'd killed earlier in the story who now wants revenge for having killed her. |
* The Korean folk tale "The Pheasant and the Gong": a woodcutter on a long journey gets lost in the forest. Tired and hungry, he stumbles upon a mansion, whose only occupant [[Schmuck Bait|is a beautiful, charming, helpful young woman]]. It turns out she is the spirit of a [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|snake]] he'd killed earlier in the story who now wants revenge for having killed her. |
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* In the novelization of the ballad "Thomas the Rhymer" the Fairy Queen makes a point of only serving Thomas food made in human world, always specifying where it's from, since she intends to release him after several years of service, and if he ate the native food of the Fairyland he would be stuck there for good, and even she would have no power to help him. |
* In the novelization of the ballad "Thomas the Rhymer" the Fairy Queen makes a point of only serving Thomas food made in human world, always specifying where it's from, since she intends to release him after several years of service, and if he ate the native food of the Fairyland he would be stuck there for good, and even she would have no power to help him. |
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* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170212161259/http://surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/index.html Beauty's Father]" stumbles into one of these when he takes shelter in the Beast's castle. In the original fairy tale it wasn't accepting the offered hospitality that caused the problem, though—it was picking a rose as he left in the morning. |
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* Persephone in Greek mythology. Kidnapped by Hades, she eats a few pomegranate seeds and bam—we've got winter. She has to stay down there for a few months every year and her mother angsts. |
* Persephone in Greek mythology. Kidnapped by Hades, she eats a few pomegranate seeds and bam—we've got winter. She has to stay down there for a few months every year and her mother angsts. |
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