Male characters in fairy tales

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and One Nights (often known in English as The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based on a folk tale that he heard from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.

fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen

fictional sailor

fairy tale

"Bluebeard" ( ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by in Paris in 1697 in . The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom", and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard". The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word Bluebeard the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb bluebeardi

"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's firstborn child.

folk tale from middle east, in '1001 Nights'

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

is a popular hero of Japanese folklore. His name is often translated as Peach Boy, but is directly translated as Peach + Tarō, a common Japanese given name. Momotarō is also the title of various books, films and other works that portray the tale of this hero.

fairy tale by H.C. Andersen

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

'''Hop-o'-My-Thumb (or Hop-on-My-Thumb and similar spellings) also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet' (), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre (in other versions of this fairy tale the character is a giant). This type of fairytale, in the French oral tradition, is often combined with motifs from the type 327A, similar to Hansel and Gretel; one such tale is The Lost Children''.

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

stock character

Nezha (, Nézhā) or sometimes Nezha the Crown Prince (, ), is a protection deity in Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion. His official Taoist name is "Marshal of the Central Altar" (). He was then given the title "Third Lotus Prince" () after he became a deity.

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

fairy tale by the brothers Grimm

fairy tale character

ancient Egyptian literary work

character in literature

literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published on April 30, 1855

German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 49

story from the Arabian Nights

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

group of fictional characters in the fairy tale "Snow White"

folk tale by the Brothers Grimm

schwank by the Brothers Grimm

ancient Egyptian literary text

Grimm fairy tale

folk tale

literary work

Grimm fairy tale

literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen on May 8, 1835

Arab folk tale translated to French

archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character

French fairy tale by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy

Indian fairy tale

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

schwank published by the Brothers Grimm

Champavati (Assamese: চম্পাৱতী; Champawati, Campāvatī or Champabati) is an Assamese folk tale. It was first collected in the compilation of Assamese folklore titled Burhi Aair Sadhu, by poet Lakshminath Bezbaroa. According to Assamese scholars, the story is known in Assam and among Assamese people.

animal bridegroom tale from Halmahera