I used these resources when researching the annotations 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.

“Adelaide”.  Catholic-Forum Saints.  2007. 
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta21.htm
Accessed on 16 July 2007. 

Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
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Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
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Ashley, Mike.  “Sleeper Under the Hill”.  Encyclopedia of Fantasy.  John Clute and John Grante, editors.  New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.  873.
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Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Ashliman, D. L.  The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.

Ashliman, D. L.  “Incest in European Folktales”.  Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Homepage.  1997. 
URL:   http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/incest.html
Accessed on 27 March 2006.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Biedermann, Hans.  The Wordsworth Dictionary of Symbolism.  James Hulbert, translator. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1996.
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Bottigheimer, Ruth.  “From Gold to Guilt: The Forces Which Reshaped Grimms’ Tales”. The Brothers Grimm and Folklore.  James M. McGlathery, editor.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.  192-204.

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

Campbell, T. J.  “St, Adelaide”.  New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia Online.  Adapted from The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1.  Copyright 1907.  2007. 
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140c.htm
Accessed on 16 July 2007.

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

Cirlot, J. E. A Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd ed. Jack Sage, trans.New York: Philosophical Library, 1962, 2002.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Clute, John and Ron Kaveny.  “Night Journey”.  Encyclopedia of Fantasy.  John Clute and John Grante, editors.  New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.  685-686.
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Clute, John.  “Recognition”.  Encyclopedia of Fantasy.  John Clute and John Grante, editors. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.  804-805.
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Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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Davis, R. H. C.  A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis.  London: Longmans, Grenn and Co, 1958.

de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
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Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Evans, Ivor H.  The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.  Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994.

Garda Curiosity-Lake Garda Booking.  “Garda History”.  1999-2007.
URL: www.lagodigardamagazine.com/index.asp?
lang=2&menu=188sub998art=07
Accessed on 16 July 2007. 

Gies, Frances and Joseph.  Women in the Middle Ages.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978.

Gould, Joan.  Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life.  New York: Random House, 2006.
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Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton University, 2001.
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Heuscher, Julius E. A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. 2nd edition.

Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.com.
Accessed on 8 May 2003.

Jeay, Madeline. “Marriage Traditions”.  Medieval Folklore.  Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, editors.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.  257-258.

Jeay, Madeline.  “Rites of Passage”.  Medieval Folklore.  Carl Lindahl , John McNamara, and John Lindow, editors.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.  343-345.

Jones, Alison. Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. New York: Larousse, 1995.
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Jones, Alison.  The Wordsworth Dictionary of Saints.  Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994.

Jones, Steven Swann.  “The Innocent Persecuted Heroine Genre: An Analysis of Its Structure and Themes”.  Western Folklore.  Vol. 52, No. 1.  (Jan 1993).  13-41.
Accessed though JSTOR Archive [JSTOR.org] on August 8, 2007.

Langford, David.  “Dark Tower”.  Encyclopedia of Fantasy.  John Clute and John Grante, editors. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.  251.
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Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Livingston, A. D.  and Helen Livingston.  The Wordsworth Guide to Edible Plants and Animals.  Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1996.

Luthi, Max. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1976.

“Magdalene”.  Behind the Name Homepage.  2007.  
URL: http://www.behindthename.com/name/magdalene
Accessed on 22 August 2007.

Matthews, Borg, trans. The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 1986.

Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.  New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.

Oliveira, Plino Correa de.  “St. Adelaide: December 16”.  The Saint of the Day.  Tradition In Action Homepage.  2002. 
URL: http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j052sdAdelaide12-16.htm
Accessed on 16 July 2007.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Paradiz, Valerie.  Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales.  New York: Basic Books, 2005.
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Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales. New York: DK Publishing, 1997.
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Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Rowe, Karen.  “Feminism and Fairy Tales”.  Don’t Bet on the Prince.  Jack Zipes, editor. New York: Routledge, 1987.  209-226.

“Saint Adelaide”.  EWTN Homepage.  From The Saints: A Concise Biography Dictionary.  John Coulson, editor. 1960.  2007. 
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/Mary/Adelaide.htm
Accessed on 16 July 2007. 

“Sound, sounded, to Gloria”.  Musicanet.org. Translation by Google.  2007. 
URL: http://www.musicanet.org
Accessed on 21 August 2007.

Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Tatar, Maria M. "Beauties vs. Beasts in the Grimms' Nursery and Household Tales." The Brothers Grimm and Folktale. James M. McGlathery, editor. Urbana-Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
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Warner, Marina.  From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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Windling, Terri.  “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair”.  Journal of the Mythic Arts.  Spring 2007.  Endicott Homepage.  26 June 2007.  (no external link available at this time).

WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack, editor. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
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Zipes, Jack.  Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Methuen, 1983.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True. London: Routledge, 1998.
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