Diamonds and Toads

Diamonds and Toads
Diamonds and Toads
	Illustration by Gustave Doré
Folk tale
Name	Diamonds and Toads
Also known as	Toads and Diamonds
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 480
Country	France

Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book.^[1] It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite.^[2]

In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to Cinderella.^[3]

It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume, Frau Holle or Mrs.Holle, The Three Heads in the Well, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch, and The Two Caskets.^[4] Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.^[5]

^ Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book, "Toads and Diamonds" Archived 2020-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite".
^ Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales, p 100 ISBN 0-19-211559-6
^ Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to Diamonds and Toads" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ Jack Zipes, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, p 543, ISBN 0-393-97636-X

[1] Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book, "Toads and Diamonds" Archived 2020-02-26 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite".

[3] Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales, p 100 ISBN 0-19-211559-6

[4] Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to Diamonds and Toads" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Jack Zipes, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, p 543, ISBN 0-393-97636-X

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