I used these resources when researching the annotations and other information 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.

Aarne, Antti A., and Stith Thompson. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 196l. Revised 1964. 2nd revision, Helsinki: Soumalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981.

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URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
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Basile, Giambattista. Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or, Entertainment for Little Ones. Nancy Canepa, translator and editor. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Bushnaq, Inea, trans. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

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.

Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1997.

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.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.

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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.

Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.

El-Shamy, Hasan M. Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.

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Haase, Donald, editor. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Hansen, Terrence Leslie. The Types of the Folktale in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Spanish South America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton University, 2001.

Hearne, Betsy. Beauties and Beasts: The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1993.

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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco. The Pleasant Nights. 2 Volumes. Donald Beecher, editor. W. G. Waters, translator. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

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Warner, Marina.  From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.

Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.

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