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The Six Swans
Illustration by Walter Crane (1882).
Folk tale
Name
The Six Swans
Aarne–Thompson grouping
ATU 451
Country
Germany
Published in
Grimms' Fairy Tales
"The Six Swans" (German: Die sechs Schwäne) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 49).[1][2] It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found throughout Europe.[3][4] Other tales of this type include The Seven Ravens, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, and The Twelve Brothers.[5] Andrew Lang included a variant of the tale in The Yellow Fairy Book.[6]
Scholars and folktale catalogues report variants of the tale type across Europe, the Middle East, and even India and Japan, although the number of brothers and their animal form may vary between tales.
^Kinder und Hausmärchen. Dieterich. 1843.
^Ashliman, D. L. (2020). "The Six Swans". University of Pittsburgh.
^Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. FF Communications. p. 267 - 268.
^Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press. 1977. p. 111.
^"Tales Similar To Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". SurLaLune Fairy Tales. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
^"THE SIX SWANS from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". Mythfolklore.net. 2003-07-12. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
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