I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.
Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
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Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
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Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Ashliman, D. L. The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.
Bergler, Edmund. “The Clinical Importance of 'Rumpelstiltskin' As Anti-Male Manifesto.” American Imago 18:1. Spring 1961. 65-70.
Bernheimer, Kate. Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Bottigheimer, Ruth B. “Tale Spinners: Submerged Voices in Grimms' Fairy Tales.” New German Critique 27. Fall 1982. 141-50.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and SocialVision of the Tales. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.
Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest : Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1999.
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Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1997.
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Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
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Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Clodd, Edward. Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale. London: Duckworth and Co. 1898.
Read the book here.
Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
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Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Hornyansky, Michael. “The Truth of Fables.” Only Connect: Readings on Children’s Literature. 2d edition. Sheila Egoff, editor. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1965. 121-32.
Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.com.
Accessed on May 8, 2002.
Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Jones, Steven Swann. “The Innocent Persecuted Heroine Genre: An Analysis of Its Structure and Themes.” Western Folklore 52. January 1993. 13-41.
Lang, Andrew, ed. "Rumpelstiltskin." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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Leach, Maria. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.
McGlathery, James M. Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
McGlathery, James M. Grimms’ Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.
Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition. New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.
Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.
Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales. New York: DK Publishing, 1997.
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Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Rohrich, Lutz. “The Quest of Meaning in Folk Narrative Research.” The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. James M. McGlathery, editor. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 1-15.
Rohrich, Lutz. Folktales and Reality. Peter Tokofsky, translator. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
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Warner, Marina. From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.
Yolen, Jane. Sister Emily's Lightship. New York: Tor, 2000.
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Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979.
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Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale (Thomas D. Clark Lectures). Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True. London: Routledge, 1998.
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