Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,737
edits
The White Duck: Difference between revisions
m
added Category:Myth, Legend and Folklore using HotCat
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (defaultsort, tropelist) |
m (added Category:Myth, Legend and Folklore using HotCat) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{work}}
'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120512023132/http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/yellow25.htm "The White Duck"]''' is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye Russkie Skazki''. It was included by [[Andrew Lang]] in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.
The plot of the tale follows a king who leaves his new wife for a journey, warning her to be careful in his absence. A woman lures her into the garden and into a pool, and turns her into a white duck, taking the queen's own form and place, the king returning to the impostor. The duck soon laid three eggs, two ducklings and an ugly drake born of them; the duck warns the three of the witch and to avoid her.
Line 18:
[[Category:The White Duck]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Russian Literature]]
[[Category:Myth, Legend and Folklore]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:White Duck, The}}
| |||