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== [[Fairy Tales]] ==
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130814130639/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/186truesweetheart.html The True Sweetheart]", the heroine [[She Cleans Up Nicely|dresses up for the ball]] in order to win back the prince, who had been [[Dude in Distress|enchanted]] into [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|forgetting her]].
* In "[
* In "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]" and "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313071234/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]", the hero violated a [[Forbidden Fruit|prohibition]], and only makes his way back to the heroine in time to stop her wedding.
* In "[[East of the Sun and West of the Moon]]", the heroine's [[The Quest|quest]] to find her husband able to hold off the troll he is to marry only by demanding that she wash an enchanted shirt; only the heroine can wash it and claim him.
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* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060523212750/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/index.html Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf]", after the older brothers have [[Family-Unfriendly Death|murdered]] [[Youngest Child Wins|Prince Ivan]], he [[Back From the Dead|nevertheless]] arrives in time to stop Helena the Beautiful's forced marriage to his brother Vasilii.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140322064734/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/stories/daughterskies.html Daughter of the Skies]", the heroine finishes her [[The Quest|quest]] and arrives during the wedding preparations and bribes the false bride into letting her at her husband; the false bride drugs him twice, but the third time, he is alerted to what she had done the first two, and doesn't drink the drug.
** Also in "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718152946/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/stories/sprigrosemary.html The Sprig of Rosemary]".
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* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140322062349/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/stories/whitewolf.html The White Wolf]", the heroine makes it to the castle where the wedding, bribes her way to his room, and pours out her story. The next day, at the wedding feast, the hero marries off his new bride to someone else and keeps the heroine
{{quote|''Then, when all the guests were assembled in the banqueting hall, he spoke to them and said: "Hearken to me, ye kings and princes, for I have something to tell you. I had lost the key of my treasure casket, so I ordered a new one to be made; but I have since found the old one. Now, which of these keys is the better?"
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"Certainly the old key is better than the new one."
"Then," said the wolf, "if that is so, my former bride is better than my new one."'' }}
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{{quote|''Then he summoned all his princes and nobles and his officers of all ranks and told them the story, asking: "Which of these two am I to wed? With which can I spend a long life so happily that it will seem a short one: with her who would deceitfully sell my hours for playthings, or with her who sought me over three times nine lands? Do ye now discuss and decide."
And all cried with one voice: "Thou shouldst leave the seller of thy rest and wed her who did follow thee!"'' }}
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