Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another o...
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