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An archetypical example is the simple peasant successfully put to the test by a King who wishes a suitable suitor for his daughter. In this fairy tale, no brave and valiant prince or knight succeeds. Aided only by his natural wit, the peasant evades danger and triumphs over monsters and villains without fighting.
Female characters in fairy tales (8 C, 256 P) M. Male characters in fairy tales (8 C, 92 P) S. Sleeping Beauty characters (1 C, 2 P) Snow White characters (2 C, 3 P, 1 F)
Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Caumont de La Force) Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Mailly) Fairy godmother; The Falcon Pipiristi; The Fan of Patience (Pakistani fairy tale) Feather O' My Wing (Irish fairy tale) The Fire-Fairy; The Fisher-Girl and the Crab; The Flea (fairy tale) The Flower Queen's Daughter; The Forgotten Bride; The Fox Sister; Frau Holle; The Frog ...
A handsome, courageous fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. Often charming and romantic, these characters are essentially interchangeable, serving as a foil to the heroine; in many variants, they can be viewed as a metaphor for a reward the ...
In 1995, Australian children's TV series Johnson and Friends adapted this fairy tale, with the characters 'roleplaying' and acting out the story in a humorous fashion. In 2004, the story is retold on Hi-5. This version has the goats replaced by sheep and instead of the troll wanting to eat them, he just wanted to sleep and was annoyed by their ...
From the famous tongue twister Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Pepper, the nursery rhyme Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, and the tale of Peter and the Wolf, Peter was first mentioned in part 2 of The Ballad of Rodney and June, and went on to become one of the title characters in Peter & Max: A Fables Novel.
The character of Prince Charming is deconstructed in the 2004 movie Shrek 2 and its 2007 follow-up Shrek the Third, wherein he is the son of the Fairy Godmother and has an unpleasant and ruthless personality unfitting for a fairy-tale prince.
[citation needed] The fairy tales How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon and Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf have the hero aided by a fox and a wolf respectively, but in the similar tale The Golden Bird, the talking fox is freed from a spell to become the heroine's brother, and in The Bird 'Grip', the fox leaves the hero after ...