Wonder tale
Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal (recontagem) · Russia · 1903
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.
Content warning: Abandonment of a daughter, family mistreatment, death by freezing, grief, violence against animals.
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Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany
An old woman who lives with her geese in the middle of a wilderness is taken for a witch by the people of the region. A young count who helps her carry her bundle leaves with a little emerald box, and what lies inside it leads to a queen who has lost a daughter, and to a well where someone washes in the moonlight.
Tradição oral russa, recolhida por Aleksandr Afanásiev · Rússia
When her mother dies, Vasilisa receives a doll and an instruction: feed it and ask its advice whenever misfortune comes. Sent into the forest to fetch fire, she reaches Baba Yaga's hut and must fulfil the tasks of the old woman who eats people.
Hans Christian Andersen · Denmark
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.