ATU 400-459

classic fairytale (ATU 410)

folktale type (ATU 425C)

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

thumbnail|upright=1.3|Melusine's secret discovered, from Le Roman de Mélusine by Jean d'Arras, . Bibliothèque nationale de France.

concept in several religions and mythologies

1838 literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

story from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

The lindworm (worm meaning snake), also spelled lindwyrm or lindwurm, is a mythical creature in Northern, Western and Central European folklore that traditionally has the shape of a giant serpent monster which lives deep in the forest. It can be seen as a sort of dragon.

archetype in myth

mythological serpent from Lithuanian folklore

fairy tale by the brothers Grimm

legendary medieval figure

Norse fairy tale

folk fairy tale

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 49

thumb|right|180px|From Ardre image stone VIII. Vǫlundr's smithy in the centre, Níðuðr's daughter to the left, and Níðuðr's dead sons hidden to the right of the smithy. Between the girl and the smithy, Vǫlundr can be seen flying away, apparently in bird form. thumb|Völundr and his two brothers see the swan-maidens bathing. Illustration by [[Jenny Nyström, 1893.]] thumb|"The three smith boys spy and later marry three valkyrie maidens" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine. Vǫlundarkviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Völund'; modern Icelandic spelling: Völundarkviða) is one of the mythological poems of the

mythological symbol

Chinese folk tale

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

thumb|Manohara as depicted in Phap Nang Ngam Nai Wannakhadi ("Illustrations of Ladies in Literature"), an illustrated book by Thai people|Thai artist [[Hem Vejakorn.]] Manohara is the kinnari (half-woman, half-bird) heroine of one of the Jataka tales. Typically referred to as Manohara and Prince Sudhana, the legend appears in the Divyavadana and is documented by stone reliefs at Borobodur. Versions of the story are reported in the literature of Southeast Asian countries, and similar stories about a bird maiden and a mortal man can be found in East Asia.

Norse fairy tale

short story by Madame d'Aulnoy

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Fairy tale by Giambattista Basile (1636)

White-Bear-King-Valemon () is a Norwegian fairy-tale. The tale was published as No. 90 in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny Samling (1871). George Webbe Dasent translated it for his Tales from the Fjeld.

literary work

Russian folk tale

literary work

Romanian fairy tale

French fairy tale

fairy tale

Grimm fairy tale

fairy tale by d'Aulnoy

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Norwegian fairy tale

fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy

English fairy tale

French fairy tale

Japanese deity

South Slav fable

Italian folktale

kashmiri folktale

group of folk and fairy tales about a human woman marrying or being betrothed to an animal

fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

Russian fairy tale

fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

Italian literary fairytale

Indian fairy tale

literary work

literary work

French fairy tale by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy

Irish fairy tale

Norse fairy tale