• "The Animal as Bridegroom" refers to a group of folk and fairy tales about a human woman marrying or being betrothed to an animal. The animal is revealed...
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  • cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a human princess marries a supernatural husband or man in animal form, loses...
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  • cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a human princess marries a supernatural husband or man in animal form, loses...
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    cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU...
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  • part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, "King Lindworm",...
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  • part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, "King Lindworm",...
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  • to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband: a human woman marries a supernatural husband in animal form and, after losing...
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  • union between the king and the goddess of the land. The most famous animal-as-bridegroom story that has survived in modern times is Beauty and the Beast by...
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    the Beast" was "an older form" of the animal husband narrative, and that subtypes 425A, "Animal as Bridegroom", and 425B, "The Disenchanted Husband:...
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  • Index as ATU 425A, "The Animal as Bridegroom", and ATU 425C, "Beauty and the Beast". These tales refer to a human maiden betrothed to a prince in animal form...
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  • Merchán [es]. The tale belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom as a subtype, with few variants reported across Europe and in Spain...
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    part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, a type that deals...
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  • international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, wherein a human maiden marries a man under an animal curse, loses him and...
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  • Dutch philologist Jan de Vries, the tale belongs to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, in a form that appears in the Indonesian archipelago. Variants also...
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  • international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, wherein a human maiden marries a man under an animal curse, loses him and...
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  • and becomes a handsome man. Some tales are related to the cycle of Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband. Japanese scholar Seki Keigo titled...
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  • international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, wherein a human princess marries a prince under an animal curse, loses him and...
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  • related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, wherein a heroine marries a husband in animal form who reveals he is man underneath. In...
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  • Son Tale and Jean de l'Ours, analyses of tale-types 301 and 650A Animal as Bridegroom, analysis of ATU 425 and related types The Bird Lover, analysis of...
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  • international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband, in that a heroine marries a supernatural husband in animal shape, loses him...
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  • reworked the tale as King Crin in his work Italian Folktales. The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for...
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    collected by the Brothers Grimm, as tale number 127. It is Aarne–Thompson type 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom". Dorothea Viehmann prepared the...
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  • classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 425A, "The Animal as Bridegroom". in this tale type, the heroine is a human maiden who...
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    and the Beast (Texts of Cupid and Psyche and similar monster or beast as bridegroom tales, mostly of AT-425C form, with hyperlinked commentary). Robert...
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    international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or "The Search for the Lost Husband", wherein a human maiden marries a husband in animal form, breaks a prohibition...
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  • in German as Der Krebs als Zarensohn ("The Crab as Son-in-Law"). The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search...
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  • Wheeler from Ayutla, Jalisco. It is related to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom and distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche...
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  • Christiansen identified its origin as County Kerry. The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search of the Lost Husband...
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    where a human maiden marries a supernatural husband in animal form (Animal as Bridegroom). As in tales of swan maidens, shapeshifting and flight on wings...
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  • related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, wherein a heroine marries a husband in animal form who reveals he is man underneath. In...
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