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For his kindness, Dummling receives a golden goose found within the roots of a tree he cuts down, guided by the little gray man. Dummling brings the golden goose to an inn for the night. Upon seeing the goose, the innkeeper's three daughters decide to steal some golden feathers when Dummling goes to sleep.
The English idiom "Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg", [6] sometimes shortened to "killing the golden goose", derives from this fable. It is generally used of a short-sighted action that destroys the profitability of an asset. Caxton's version of the story has the goose's owner demand that it lay two eggs a day; when it replied that ...
Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]
In Library of Ruina, there is a syndicate based on the Musicians of Bremen, with each of its original members representing a different animal from the story's cast. Shari Lewis adapted the story in the computer game "Lamb Chop Loves Music", replacing the donkey with a horse and Lamb Chop taking the place of the rooster. After fleeing the ...
The culmination of Golden Goose and The Magic Swan (both classified as ATU 571, "All Stick Together"), where the goose or swan causes other characters to adhere to one another, is that the sight causes a princess to laugh for the first time. This ultimately leads to the princess’s marriage in each story.
The Golden Goose (1964) The Swamp Of The Lost Monsters (a.k.a. Swamp Of The Lost Souls) (1965) (originally El Pantano de las Animas (Swamp of the Spirits) (1956)) The Witch's Mirror (1962) The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (Las Luchadoras contra la Momia Azteca) (1965) Santa's Magic Kingdom (1966) (writer) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957/ ...
Goose, an enthusiastic Golden Retriever, weaves through a sea of idling cars on a warm afternoon at San Diego’s massive legal border crossing, one of the most transited in the world with roughly ...
It inspired such imitators as English Fairy Tales (1890) and More English Fairy Tales (1894) by Joseph Jacobs. Other followers included the American The Oak-Tree Fairy Book (1905), The Elm-Tree Fairy Book (1909), and The Fir-Tree Fairy Book (1912) series edited by Clifton Johnson (author) , and the collections of Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora ...