Beauty and the Beast. Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

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Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as '
Beauty and the Beast'
- and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another - such cultural phenomena as The Fault in Our Stars and Me Before You are recent examples - and it is impossible to find one version that laid the foundation for the rest. From Cupid and Psyche, India'
s Snake Bride to South Africa'
s '
Story of Five Heads'
, the partnering of beast and beauties has beguiled us for thousands of years.
In this fascinating volume preeminent fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar brings together tales from ancient times to the present and from a wide variety of cultures.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Model Couples from Ancient Times
Zeus and Europa (Ancient Greece)
Cupid and Psyche (Ancient Rome)
The Girl Who Married a Snake (India)
Hasan of Basra (Persia)
Charismatic Couples in the Popular Imagination
Beauty and the Beast (France)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norway) King
Pig (Italy)
The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich (Germany)
The Swan Maidens (England)
Princess Frog (Russia)
The Peri Wife (Hindu-Persian)
Animal Grooms
The Condor and the Shepherdess (Bolivia)
The Parrot Prince (Chile)
Nicholas the Fish (Colombia)
The Muskrat Husband (Alaska)
A Boarhog for a Husband (West Indies)
The Monkey Bridegroom (Japan)
Tale of the Girl and the Hyena-Man (Ghana)
The Story of Five Heads (South Africa)
The Golden Crab (Greece)
The Girl Who Married a Dog (Native American)
The Snake Prince (India)
The Small-Tooth Dog (England)
The Queen of the Pigeons (South Africa)
Animal Brides
The Grateful Crane (Japan)
The Piqued Buffalo-Wife (Native American)
The Turtle and the Chickpea (Greece)
The Frog Maiden (Myanmar)
Chonguita (Philippines)
Urashima Taro (Japan)
Oisin in Tir na n-Og (Ireland)
The Dog Bride (India)
The Swan Maiden (Sweden)
The Hunter and the Tortoise (Ghana)
The Peasant and Zemyne (Lithuania)
Puddocky (Germany)
The Man Who Married a Bear (Native American)
Sources

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