The following tales are similar to the Golden Goose fairy tale, AT-571. 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 Golden Goose 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.

The Dove and the Fox
George with the Goat *
Gilly and His Goat Skin Clothes
The Golden Goose *
Jack and the King’s Girl
The Kid
King’s Daughter Laughed
The Lamb with the Golden Fleece
Lazy Jack *
The Magic Swan *
The Royal Candlestick
Quack Quack! Stick to My Back!
Taper-Tom Who Made the Princess Laugh *

* Full text of tale is available online.

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

This tale is AT-571. It is from Italy.

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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Text available at George with the Goat.

This tale is AT-571. The tale is Slavonic, specifically Bohemian.

An English language version is available in:

Wratislaw, A. H. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.

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

This tale is AT-571.

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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An annotated version of this tale is at The Golden Goose.

This tale is AT-571.

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.

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

This tale is AT-571.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. The Jack Tales. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-571.

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-571.

An English language version is available in:

Randolph, Vance. The Devil's Pretty Daughter and Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.

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

This tale is AT-571. It is from Hungary.

An English language version is available in:

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Text available at Lazy Jack.

This tale is AT-571.

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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Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Text available at The Magic Swan.

This tale is AT-571.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Green Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1892.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-571.

An English language version is available in:

El-Shamy, Hasan M., ed. and trans. Folktales of Egypt. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-571.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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Text available at Taper-Tom Who Made the Princess Laugh.

This tale is AT-571.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. Norwegian Folk Tales. Pat Shaw Iverson and Carl Norman, translators. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960.
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Thorne-Thomsen, Gudrun. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon. Chicago: Row, Peterson and Company, 1912.

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