Literary wonder tale
Hans Christian Andersen · Dinamarca · 1845
A poor girl receives a pair of red shoes and insists on wearing them, even after being forbidden to. The shoes make her dance without stopping, along roads, across fields and into a dark forest, and she cannot get them off her feet. A tale by Hans Christian Andersen with strong images and a definitive ending.
Content warning: Death, punishment, mutilation, threat, grief.
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Tradição oral russa, recolhida por Aleksandr Afanásiev · Rússia
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