The following tales are similar to the Brother and Sister fairy tale, AT-450. 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 Brother and Sister 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.

Also look at Hansel and Gretel and its variants, a tale itself often called Brother and Sister.

The Brother and Sister (Turkey) *
The Brother Who Was A Lamb
The Cruel Stepmother
Little Boy and His Elder Sister
The Little Lamb and the Little Fish *
The Maiden from whose Head
Pearls fell on combing herself *
Maria and Her Brother
My Favoritest Olden Tale
Nennillo and Nennella *
Pleiad and Star of Dawn
The Seven Oxen
Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka *
The Stepmother *
The Story of the Bird That Made Milk (Africa) *
The Three Stags
Yeghnig Aghpar

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale can be found at The Brother and Sister.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Kúnos, Ignácz. Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1913].

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

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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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Ranke, Kurt, ed. Folktales of Germany. Lotte Baumann, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Dawkins, R. M., ed. and trans. More Greek Folktales. London: Clarendon Press, 1955.

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A web version of this tale can be found at The Lambkin and the Little Fish.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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A web version of this tale can be found at The Maiden from whose Head Pearls fell on combing herself.

This tale shares many traits with AT-450.

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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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Gonzenbach, Laura. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Jack Zipes, translator and editor. New York: Routledge, 2004.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, Marie. Tales from the Cloud Walking Country. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. (Reprint available from Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.)
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A web version of this tale is at Nennillo and Nennella.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932. Day 5, Tale 8.

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone, or The Story of Stories. John Edward Taylor, translator. London: David Bogue, 1850.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Dawkins, R. M., ed. and trans. Modern Greek Folktales. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1953.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Espinosa, Aurelio M. The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest. J. Manuel Espinosa, ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
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A web version of this tale is at Alenoushka and Her Brother.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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Ransome, Arthur. Old Peter's Russian Tales. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1917].

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale can be found at The Stepmother.

This tale is AT-450.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Text available at The Story of the Bird That Made Milk from Theal's Kaffir Folk-Lore.

An English language version is available in:

Theal, Georg McCall. Kaffir Folk-Lore. London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-450.

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-450.

An English language version is available in:

Villa, Susie Hoogasian. 100 Armenian Tales. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966.

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