The following tales are similar to the Fisherman and His Wife fairy tale, AT-555. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Fisherman and His Wife story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.
Tales of AT-550 and other Firebird tales, not including AT-531
Text available at The Baker's Idle Son.
An English language version is available in:
Pedroso, Consiglieri. Portuguese Folk-Tales. Folk Lore Society Publications, Vol. 9. Miss Henrietta Monteiro, translator. New York: Folk Lore Society Publications, 1882.
[Reprinted: New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1969.]
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Text available on D. L. Ashliman's site at The Bullock's Balls.
This tale is not AT-555, but primarily classified as AT-115: Waiting for the Testicles to Fall. It is from India.
Text is annotated on this site at The Fisherman and His Wife.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Other Tales. William Hansen, selector. Ruth Michael-Jenas and Arthur Ratcliff, translators. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1956.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.
Text available at The Gold-Children.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Other Tales. William Hansen, selector. Ruth Michael-Jenas and Arthur Ratcliff, translators. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1956.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.
A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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Text available on D. L. Ashliman's site at Hans Dudeldee.
This tale is AT-555. It is from Germany.
Text available at The Lime-Tree.
This tale comes from Russia.
An English language version is available in:
Wratislaw, A. H. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources.Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Simpson, Jacqueline, ed. Icelandic Folktales and Legends. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
A version of the tale from an unidentified source is available online at The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Massignon, Genevieve, ed. Folktales of France. Jacqueline Hyland, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
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Text available at The Stone-Cutter.
This tale is AT-555.
An English language version is available in:
Lang, Andrew, ed. The Crimson Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1903.)
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Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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Text available on D. L. Ashliman's site at The Stonemason Who Was Never Satisfied.
This tale is similar to type AT-555. It comes from China.
An English language version is available in:
Folk Tales from China, Second Series. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1958.
A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.
This tale is AT-555. The tale is from Cameroun.
An English language version is available in:
Dorson, Richard M., ed. Folktales Told Around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
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