When a tiny girl, no bigger than a thumb,
is kidnapped by a frog she begins an exiteing adventure.
| Tale of the Tontlawald | Lang | |
| A girl, beaten by her stepmother, wanders to far into an enchanted wood and is adopted by one of it's guardians. | ||
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| The Talking Eggs | ||
| Otherwise Known As: Toads and Diamonds; The Fairy in the Wood; The Fairies; Good Grisella | ||
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| Tam Lin | ||
| A maid goes down to her family's ancestral home and is impregnated by the spirit who dwells there. When she finds out she is pregnate she tries to abort the child, when the father rises up and begs her to rescue him form the queen of the fairies so they may all live together, happily ever after. | ||
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| Tattercoats | ||
| A girl runs away from home to aviod an incestious marriage with her father. | ||
| Otherwise Known As: Allerleirauh; Donkeyskin; Manyfurs; Thousandfurs; | ||
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| Tatterhood | ||
| When her more conventional twin, is stolen away by the goblins, Princess Tatterhood (riding a goat, dressed in rags, and weilding a wooden spoon) goes off to save her. At her journey's end, her sister marries a handsome king, who's brother is able to see the beauty behind Tatterhood's odd dress and behavior. | ||
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| The Terrible Head | ||
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| Thousandfurs | ||
| A princess runs away from home to avoid an incestious marraige to her father. | ||
| Otherwise Known As:Allerleirauh; Donkeyskin; Manyfurs; Tattercoats | ||
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| The Three Languages | ||
| A simpleton, apprenticed to three masters, learns to speak three animal languages. When he goes out into the world this knowledge earns him the post as a bishop. | ||
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| The Three Little Pigs | ||
| Three pig brothers build houses (of sticks, straw and brick), but only the house made of brick survives the bullying of the "big bad wolf" | ||
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| The Three Spinners | ||
| A girl who is asked to spin great rooms of flax into thread by the queen is helped by three funny looking women. When the thread is spun, the girl invites them to her wedding to the queen's son, where they make sure she will never have to spin another thread in her life. | ||
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| Thumbelina | ||
| When a tiny girl, no bigger than a thumb,
is kidnapped by a frog she begins an exiteing adventure. |
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| The Tinderbox | ||
| A soldier steals a magic tinderbox from a witch, which summons three special dogs that will do his bidding. He uses their assistance to win the hand of the king's daughter. | ||
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| Toads and Diamonds | ||
| Two sisters go into the wood and meet a fairy. The good sister's kind words are rewarded with flowers and precious stone dropping from her lips with every word she speaks. The bad sister's curses and threats are rewarded with toads and lizards falling from her lips with every word she says. | ||
| Otherwise Known As: The Talking Eggs; The Fairy in the Wood; The Fairies; Good Grisella | ||
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| Tom Thumb | ||
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| True Knowledge | ||
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| The Turnip | ||
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| The Twelve Dancing Princesses | ||
| Twelve princesses wear out their dancing shoes every night when they should be asleep, so their father lets it be known that any one who can find out where they go and why he will be rewarded with half the kingdom and his pick the pricesses for a bride, but if they fail they will be beheaded. | ||
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