Diamonds and Toads
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Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. It was illustrated b
Illustration by Gustave Doré
The younger daughter and the fairy.
The younger daughter and her mother: the gift.
The elder daughter and the fairy.
Frau Holle
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"Frau Holle" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Children's and Household Tales in 1812. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 480.
Diamonds and Toads
…Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite. In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to Cinderella. It is Aarne-Thompson…
Goldmarie from "Frau Holle", illustration by Hermann Vogel
"Holda, the good protectress" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine
Frau Gode and her dogs
Frau Holle, or Perchta, with the Wild Hunt