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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 ...
The daughter tried to make the wedding impossible by asking for three dresses, one as golden as the sun, one as silver as the moon, and one as dazzling as the stars, and a mantle made from the fur of every kind of bird and animal in the kingdom. When her father provided them, she took them, with a gold ring, a gold spindle, and a gold reel, and ...
"Pâté de Foie Gras" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published by Astounding Science Fiction. Like Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", "Pâté de Foie Gras" is a scientific spoof article, updating one of Aesop's Fables, The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.
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/ ...
Jack “Goose” Givens scored 2,038 points during his four-year Kentucky basketball career and led the Wildcats to the 1978 national championship.
Professor Dov Noy cited that variants in the Americas are found in the French, English and Spanish traditions of the continent. [ 5 ] An assessment on a global scale of international tale indexes, by Daniel J. Crowley, let him conclude that the tale type appears "among the most popular and widespread tales on Earth".
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.