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The second version is very similar, except that it mentions seven dwarfs in large hats (instead of a crowd): six dancing and one not. When the good girl agrees to dance with them, the six dwarfs who danced
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It features two half-sisters, one pretty, graceful and wise; the other ugly, ungainly and mean. At the Croaz-ann-neud crossroads between
Guernaour and
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129:moonlight
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