ATU 500-559

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a French fairy tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7BC and AD23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.

fairy tale with multiple variants (ATU 545B)

"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's firstborn child.

concept in several religions and mythologies

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"Donkeyskin" () is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Andrew Lang included it, somewhat euphemized, in The Grey Fairy Book. It is classed among folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love.

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

"Allerleirauh" () is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book.

Grimm fairy tale

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Russian folk tale

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fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

ancient Egyptian literary text

Serbian fairy tale

tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, 1697

Russian fairy tale

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Chinese fairy tale

fairy tale version published by the Brothers Grimm

folk tale

Romanian fairy tale

Russian folk fairy tale

Slovak fairy tale

Dapplegrim (Norwegian: Grimsborken) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book (1890).

Norse fairy tale

Norse fairy tale

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fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

Fairy tale by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy

Fairy tale by Giambattista Basile (1634)

Russian folk fairy tale

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Japanese folk tale

Norwegian fairy tale

Fairy tale by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy

Sivko-Burko () is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) collected by folklorist Alexandr Afanasyev in his three-volume compilation Russian Fairy Tales. The tale is a local form in Slavdom of tale type ATU 530, "The Princess on the Glass Mountain", wherein the hero has to jump higher and reach a tower or terem, instead of climbing up a steep and slippery mountain made entirely of glass.

German fairy tale version by the Brothers Grimm

Fairy tale by Giambattista Basile (1636)

is an abridged version of a Swahili fairy tale titled "Sultan Majnun" (Sultani Majinuni), collected by Edward Steere (1828–1882)

Russian fairy tale

East Slavic Folk Tale

Russian fairy tale

Finnish and Karelian fairy tale

Korean romance story

Catskin is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. Marian Roalfe Cox, in her study of Cinderella, identified as one of the basic types, the Unnatural Father, contrasting with Cinderella itself and ''Cap O' Rushes''.

fairy tale