Sunday, September 22, 2024

Variants of "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers" (ATU 451)

 

"Six Swans" by Elenore Abbott in Grimm's Fairy Tales. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

A group of brothers are transformed into birds and it falls to their littlest sister to rescue them. Sometimes she must remain silent for several years. Or she has to go on a long quest to reach the mountain they reside in. No matter what, the familial love and loyalty always breaks the curse.


The Twelve Wild Ducks

The Six Swans

The Seven Crows

Snow-White and Rosy-Red

The Wild Swans

The Twelve Brothers


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Variants of "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers" (ATU 451)

  "Six Swans" by Elenore Abbott in  Grimm's Fairy Tales . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. A group of brothers are...