The following tales are similar to the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale, AT-328. 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 Jack and the Beanstalk 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.

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This tale is AT-328.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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This tale is AT-328.

Randolph, Vance. Who Blowed Up the Church? and Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.

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This tale is AT-328. The tale comes from Norway.

An English language version is available in:

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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This tale is AT-328.

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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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Esben and the Witch.

This tale is AT-328. The tale comes from Denmark.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Pink Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1897.)
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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Degh, Linda, ed. Folktales of Hungary. Judit Halasz, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

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This tale is AT-328.

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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This tale is AT-328. The tale comes from Sweden.

An English language version is available in:

Bodker, Laurits; Hole, Christina; and D'Aronoco, G., eds. European Folk Tales. European Folklore Series, vol. 1. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1963.

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A web version of this tale can be found at How The Dragon Was Tricked.

This tale is AT-328. The tale comes from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Pink Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1897.)
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A web version of this tale can be found at How the Stalos Were Tricked.

This tale is AT-328. The tale comes from Lapland.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Orange Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1968. (Original published 1906.)
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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. The Jack Tales. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.
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*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Appalachian Jack and the Beanstalk stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/beantree.htm.
and Appalachian Jack Tales at
http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/index.htm#Jack.

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Note about popular versions: Andrew Lang's version of Jack and the Beanstalk is based on the first literary, or recorded, version of the tale published in 1807 by Benjamin Tabart. While Tabart's is not the definitive version--there is no true definitive version--it has many intriguing elements most likely created by Tabart himself.

Joseph Jacobs later recorded a version for his book, English Fairy Tales, that is considered to be closer to a majority of the tale's oral variants. It is also the version most commonly used in fairy tale collections. I chose to annotate Jacobs' version for this reason. I discuss many of the significant differences between the two versions in my annotations of the tale.

A web version of Joseph Jacob's version of the tale is annotated on this site at Jack and the Beanstalk.

A web version of this tale from Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book can be found at Jack and the Beanstalk.

This tale is AT-328.

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. (Briggs' favors Jacobs version.)

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. The Red Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1966. (Original published 1890.) (Lang favors Tabart's version.)
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Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. (The Opies feature Tabart's version as the earliest version in print.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-328.

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.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. The Jack Tales. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.
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Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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A web version of this tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book is available on this site at The History of Jack the Giant-Killer.

A web version of Joseph Jacob's version of the tale can be found at Jack the Giant-Killer.

This tale is AT-328.

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.

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Thomas, Rosemary Hyde. It's Good to Tell You: French Folktales from Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981.

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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Pino-Saaverdra, Yolando, ed. Folktales of Chile. Rockwell Gray, ed. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

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

This tale is AT-328.

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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A web version of this tale from Joseph Jacobs exists at Molly Whuppie.

This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Roberts, Leonard W. South From Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

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

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This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Thirteenth.

This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-328.

An English language version is available in:

Eberhard, Wolfram, ed. Folktales of China. Desmond Parsons, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

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