Literary tale
Hans Christian Andersen · Denmark · 1843
A duck sits on her eggs beside a canal. The last one to break its shell is big, grey and different from all the others. Rejected in the yard, he runs away and crosses moors, other people’s homes and a whole winter.
Content warning: Rejection and mistreatment, violence against animals, death, persecution and extreme cold.
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Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany
A princess is walled up in a tower by her own father for refusing another marriage. When she finally gets out, the kingdom lies in ruins, and she goes to work in the kitchen of the palace where her betrothed lives.
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont · France
A ruined merchant gets lost in a forest and finds an empty palace where everything awaits him, ready. When he picks a rose in the garden, he is condemned to death by the owner of the place, a beast, who agrees to spare him if one of his daughters comes in his place. Beauty, the youngest, offers herself.
Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal (recontagem) · Russia
A stepmother orders her husband to abandon his daughter in the fields in the depths of winter. There the girl meets Father Frost, who asks her a question. Later, the same question will be put to someone else.