Diamonds and Toads
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Complete, First published Jan 05, 2015
Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamondsis a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book.[1] It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite.[2]

In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to Cinderella.[3]

It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume, Frau Holle, The Three Heads in the Well, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch, and The Two Caskets.[4] Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.[5]
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