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Mielikki and Her Nine Sons is a Finnish fairy tale published in the compilation Tales from a Finnish Tupa. It is related to the theme of the calumniated wife and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", in a version of the story that occurs in Northern Europe and Northwest Russia, namely, in Finland, Estonia, and among Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Russia.
Despite the same classification as a form more commonly found across Europe, the tale and variants collected in the Finno-Ugric languages more closely resemble the East Slavic redaction, akin to The Tale of Tsar Saltan, by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.