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Rosemary
Lake
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(6/29/03 11:43 am)
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[[There's a variant of 'water of life' in which the orphan children are raised by a deer. Southern Eurpean I think.]]
Not Calvino's "The Fine Greenbird". Maybe Crane's POPULAR ITALIAN TALES or ITALIAN POPULAR TALES or soemthing like that. Or a Spanish version, title soemthing about "truth"? And/or probably Lang.
[[a spoiled girl who went to live with the Sea Queen and mermaids. Before they would accept her, they set her a quest on land. She had to change into several forms to complete it. Iirc one form was a parrot, another an ant, another perhaps a deer. Or perhaps she met another woman in the form of a deer.]]
I'm pretty sure this was in Lang.
Rosemary
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Rosemary Lake
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(7/5/03 8:09 pm)
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"The Girl-Fish" in Orange Fairy Book
[[a spoiled girl who went to live with the Sea Queen and mermaids. Before they would accept her, they set her a quest on land. She had to change into several forms to complete it. Iirc one form was a parrot, another an ant, another perhaps a deer. ]]
Just came across this one. "The Girl-Fish" in Orange Fairy Book. In deer form she meets a prince, and is befriended by the Prince's mother.
The purpose of the task was to get herself and the mermaid and fish back to human form.
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