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help the hero to recover the stolen talisman. (...) In the fairy tale about Aladdin the situation is substantially different: the task of the dog and the cat would be superfluous here because besides the magic lamp the hero is in possession of another talisman with the help of which he recovers the lamp and also conjures up palace and princess. In type AT 562 , which is derived from the Aladdin fairy tale, the motif of the second talisman is missing, while the task of the helper is performed here by the hero's friend.
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also wanted to go, and his father finally let him, expecting never to see him again. On the way, he saw men about to kill a dog, and asked them to give it to him instead; they did. He acquired a cat and a snake by the same manner. The snake brought him to the king of snakes, telling him how he would
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In the fairy tale about the magic ring it is necessary for the hero to win the gratitude not only of the donor of the talisman (this is generally a serpent), but also of a dog and a cat (not of other animals) because these two animals are alloted a special task at the end of the fairy tale, i.e. to
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He went home. Because he wore the same dirty clothing he set out in, his father flew into a rage. A few days later, he used the watch to make a house and invite his father to a feast there. Then he invited the king and the princess. The king was impressed by the marvels the son conjured to entertain
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The son set out with the dog and cat. They saw an island with a house where the princess had fled and conjured up the house to live. The dog swam to it with the cat on its back; the cat stole it and carried it back in its mouth. The dog asked it how far it was to land, and the cat finally answered;
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the watch fell from its mouth. The cat caught a fish and freed it only when it promised to bring back the watch. It did so, and they restored the watch to the son. He wished the princess and her house and island to drown in the sea and went back home.
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The first part of the tale, the rescue of the son of the king of serpents by the poor man and the reward of the wish-granting object (usually a magic stone or ring), is close to the widespread tale of
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have to explain his absence, but then the king would want to reward the son. He told him to ask for a watch, which, when he rubbed it, would give him whatever he wanted.
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noted that the presence of the snake or serpent seemed to be ubiquitous in the general area of dispersion of the tale, with a few exceptions.
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them and married the princess to him. Soon, because he was so foolish, his wife wearied of him. She learned of the watch, stole it, and fled.
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reiterated its popularity in Eastern Europe, also citing that it is popular in the Near East, India, Japan and China.
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Greek folklorist Georgios A. Megas stated that the tale type is "widely told in Greece", and reported 72 variants.
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distinguished these types by the presence of the helpful animals in retrieving the magic object (type 560).
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A rich man's oldest two sons went out and saw the world for three years apiece and came back. The foolish
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According to professor Yolando Pino Saavedra, the tale type ATU 560 enjoys more popularity in
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Horálek, K. (1974). "Folk Poetry: History And Typology". In Arthur S. Abramson (ed.).
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Canepa, Nancy (2007). "The Rooster's Stone: First Entertainment of the Fourth Day".
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Basile, Giambattista; Strange, E. F. (Ed.); Taylor, John Edward (translator).
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stated that an Asian predecessor can be found in the Mongolian compilation of
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Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
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Russian scholarship divided the type's narrative sequence in 4 episodes:
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tale type ATU 560, "The Magic Ring". This tale type is close to ATU 561,
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Sagas from the Far East or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales
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The youth at the court of the King of Snakes. Illustration from
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A European literary predecessor of the tale type appears in
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Blamires, David (2009). "Clemens Brentano's Fairytales".
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In his extensive analysis of the tale type, folklorist
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Index

fairy tale
Paul Sébillot
Andrew Lang
The Green Fairy Book

The Green Fairy Book
youngest son
Aarne–Thompson–Uther
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
The Spirit in the Blue Light
Kurt Ranke
Karel Horálek
cs
Antti Aarne
Pentamerone
Lev Barag
ru
Andrew Lang
Punjaub
Bretons
Eastern Europe
Wolfram Eberhard
Louis Léger
Bohemian
Dogri
Patal lok
Kalmuck
Clemens Brentano
The One-Handed Girl
Gyeonmyo jaengju

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