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"The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apple" (Serbian: Златна јабука и девет пауница, Zlatna jabuka i devet paunica) is a work of Serbian epic poetry. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 400*, "The Swan Maiden ", [ 1 ] and as Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index (ATU) type 400, "The Quest for the Lost Wife".
In a Russian variant, Ivan Tsarevich, the Gray Wolf and Elena the Most Beautiful, the prince must take part in a chain of deals: in order to obtain the golden bird, he first must capture the golden-maned horse from another kingdom; but, if he intends to obtain the horse, he must first kidnap foreign Princess Elena and deliver her to the tsar ...
The Augusta, Lady Gregory play called The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children is a fable in the invented Kiltartan dialect based on Irish mythology and folklore. The Golden Apples is the name of Southern writer, Eudora Welty's, fourth short story collection, published in 1949. The stories are interrelated and center around the citizens ...
Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid is an adventure video game developed by HandCircus, published by Ngmoco, and distributed by Apple Inc. for iPhone and iPod Touch. Rolando 2 was released on July 3, 2009. [2] [3] It is the sequel to Rolando, which was released in 2008.
The prince then quests for the golden bird, the white saddle-horse with golden-bridle of another Emperor, and the golden-haired "divine Craiessa" ("queen"). [ 12 ] In the Romanian tale Povestea lupului năsdrăvan şi a Ilenei Cosinzene , a wolf helps the prince in his quest for the feather of a golden dove, a golden apple, a horse, and the ...
Ladon was the serpent-like dragon that twined and twisted around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples. In pursuance of his eleventh labour , Heracles killed Ladon with a bow and arrow and carried the apples away.
In the fourth, collected from Fogo, the boy has a gold star on the forehead, and the girl a golden apple on her hand. [140] In a second set of Cape Verdean variants, the children are replaced for animals and saved by the Old-Woman-of-the-Sea. These tales also lack the quest for the items. [141]
Articles relating to tales about golden apples, an element that appears in various national and ethnic folk legends or fairy tales. Recurring themes depict a hero (for example Hercules or Făt-Frumos ) retrieving the golden apples hidden or stolen by a monstrous antagonist .