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Illustration by Arthur Rackham, from The Allies Fairy Book from 1916. "The dragon flew out and caught the queen on the road and carried her away".
"The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apple" (Zlatna jabuka i devet paunica) is a work of Serbian epic poetry. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 400*, "The Swan Maiden",[1] and ATU 400, "The Quest for the Lost Wife".[2]
It was published for the first time as a fairy tale by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in 1853, translated into English as "The Golden Apple-tree, and the Nine Peahens" (1874) by Elodie Lawton Mijatović,[3] and under a similar title by Woislav M. Petrovitch (1914).[4] Later on it was published in 1890 as a Bulgarian fairy tale translated as "The Golden Apples and the Nine Peahens" by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, as tale number 38.[5]
American illustrator and poet Katherine Pyle translated the tale as "The Seven Golden Peahens", while keeping its source as Serbian.[6] Parker Fillmore translated the tale as The Enchanted Peafowl and indicated its source as Yugoslavian.[7]
Anthropologist Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book included a re-translation from a German translation of Karadžić's tale.[8] Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales.
^Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to the Swan Maiden"
^Vučković, Dijana & Bratic, Vesna. (2020). "Propp Revisited: A Structural Analysis of Vuk Karadžić’s Collection Serbian Folk Fairy Tales". In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik. 65. pp. 335-367. 10.1515/slaw-2020-0017.
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^Pyle, Katherine. Fairy Tales of Many Nations. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1911. pp. 11-46.
^Fillmore, Parker. The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1921. pp. 109-138.
^Volksmärchen der Serben: Der goldene Apfelbaum und die neun Pfauinnen, on zeno.org.
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