ATU 700-749

fairy tale version published by the Brothers Grimm

right|upright|thumb|Snow Maiden (1899) by Victor Vasnetsov

Polycrates (; ), son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from the 540s BC to 522 BC. He had a reputation as both a fierce warrior and an enlightened tyrant.

fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

Grimm fairy tale

fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin

"Thumbling," published in German as "Daumesdick" (literally, "Thumb-thick"), is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1819 (KHM 37). The Grimms included another, similar story, "Thumbling's Travels". Both stories are related to the English Tom Thumb and often share its title when translated into English.

legendary medieval figure

fable by Aesop

character in literature

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Countess d'Aulnoy fairy tale

fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm

French fairy tale

Dutch folk tale

Bengali folk tale

Tatterhood (Norwegian: Lurvehette) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.

Bengali fairy tale

Drakestail also known as Quackling is a Fairy tale about a duck, where repetition forms most of the logic behind the plot. The story is also similar to other folk and fairy tales where the hero picks up several allies (or sometimes items or skills) and uses them in the exact order found.

character in Albanian folklore, a crafty fairy.

Italian fairy tale

Myrsina () or Myrtle () is a Greek fairy tale collected by in Folktales of Greece. Other variants were collected by Anna Angelopoulou.

short story by Giovanni Francesco Straparola