This article is about the Russian fairy tale. For the German fairy tale, see The Girl Without Hands.
The Armless Maiden (Russian: Косоручка) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.[1]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 706, the girl without hands. Other variants of this tale include The Girl Without Hands, Penta of the Chopped-off Hands, Biancabella and the Snake, and The One-Handed Girl.[2]
^Angela Carter, The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, p 135, Pantheon Books, New York, 1990 ISBN 0-679-74037-6
^Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to the Girl Without Hands"
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