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- Little Brother and Little Sister

The boy is turned into a roe by the cruel stepmother. Lives with his sister in the forest. The king marries the sister. Her stepmother usurps her place as wife. Disclosure, punishment, and reunion. Cf. Types 403, 480, 533. I. Cruel Stepmother. A widower yields to the persuasion of his daughter and marries again. The new wife is cruel to the stepchildren. II. Kind and Unkind. The good maiden is granted beauty and other gifts but her evil sister receives ugliness as a gift.Cfa. Type 403, 480. III. The Children's Flight from Home. (a) Brother and sister escape together. (b) The brother is transformed by the stepmother into a roe or sheep, (c) when he drinks from an animal's track; - or (d) the brother takes service with a king whom he tells about his beautiful sister. IV. False Bride. The sister marries a king but is replaced by another: (a) on the way to the wedding, (b) when a child is born; - or (c) she is thrown into the water and abandoned, or (d) transformed by the stepmother into a bird or fish, or (e) caught by a mermaid or swallowed by a fish. (f) The impostor is usually a stepsister. V. Persecuted Brother. The king (a) has the brother thrown into a snake pit and (b) marries the false bride. VI. Denouement. (a) Conversation of brother and sister overheard by a servant or the king. (b) The queen returns at night in her animal form to learn about her family and is disenchanted by decapitation or by cutting of the chain which binds her. (c) The dead queen returns at night from the grave to suckle her child. VII. Punishment. The villain is given the punishment she has unwittingly suggested.

S31.5

S31

L55

P253

S301

S143

D683.2

D555.1

D135

D114.1.1

P253.2

T11.1

N711.1

L162

K1911

K2212.1

K1911.1.1

K1911

I. S31.5. Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly. S31. Cruel stepmother. L55. Stepdaughter heroine.
II. Q2. Kind and unkind.
III. P253. Sister and brother. S301. Children abandoned (exposed). S143. Abandonment in forest. D683.2. Transformation by witch (sorceress). D555.1. Transformation by drinking from animal's track. D135. Transformation: man to sheep. D114.1.1. Transformation: man to deer. P253.2. Sister faithful to transformed brother. T11.1. Love from description.
IV. N711.1. King (prince) finds maiden in woods (tree) and marries her. L162. Lowly heroine marries prince (king). K1911. The false bride (substituted bride). K2212.1. Treacherous stepsisters. K1911.1.1. False bride takes true bride's place on way to wedding. K1911.1.2. False bride takes true bride's place when child is born. S142. Person thrown into the water and abandoned. S432. Cast-off wife thrown into water. K1911.2.2. True bride pushed into water by false. K1911.2.1. True bride transformed by false. D150. Transformation to bird. D170. Transformation to fish. B82. Mermaid. K1911.2.2.1. True bride lives in fish's belly. F913. Victims rescued from swallower's belly.
V. Q465.1. Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment.
VI. H13. Recognition by overheard conversation. E322.2. Dead wife returns to wake husband. E323.1.1. Dead mother returns to suckle child. D688. Transformed mother suckles child. D711. Disenchantment by decapitation. D757. Disenchantment by holding enchanted person during successive transformation. D762. Disenchantment by proper person waking from magic sleep. The enchanted person appears three times and if the sleeper does not wake by the third times the enchantment must last.
VII. Q581. Villain nemesis.

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*BP I 79 (Grimm No. 11

cf. No. 141).