European fairy tales

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a French fairy tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7BC and AD23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.

European fairy tale (ATU 333)

classic fairytale (ATU 410)

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

"Rapunzel" ( ; ; or ) is a German fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and it was published in 1812 as part of ''Children's and Household Tales'' (KHM 12). The Grimms' story was developed from the French literary fairy tale of Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698), which itself is an alternative version of the Italian fairy tale Petrosinella by Giambattista Basile (1634).

fairy tale with multiple variants (ATU 545B)

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

In Nordic folklore, including the Northern Isles, hidden-folk (Faroese and Icelandic: ; Norwegian: ), mound-folk (, ), mountain-folk (, ; ), subterraneans (, ; Gutnish: di sma undar jordi, "the small underground"; , roughly "grounders"), among other names (, Insular Scots: trow, drow), are collective names for a loose race or conglomeration of elves, wights, brownies (Nordic: nisse), trolls, and thereof. They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world. They can make themselves visible at will. cites a 19th-century Iceland

Transylvanian Roma fairy tale

Errementari, also known as The Blacksmith and the Devil, is a 2017 internationally co-produced Basque-language period fantasy horror film directed by and written by Alijo and Asier Guerricaechebarría. The plot is based on the Basque folktale version of The Smith and the Devil, as collected by Father Joxemiel Barandiaran. The film sets the legend in 1843, with a blacksmith holding a demon in captivity, and an orphan girl who releases the demon from its cage.

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

1963 fairy tale book by Ruth Manning-Sanders