Donor (fairy tale) by Giambattista Basile. In the Grimm Brothers' variant of "Cinderella", the protagonist is aided not by her fairy godmother but by her dead mother, as is the heroine of the Finnish variant, "The Wonderful Birch". A great variety of other figures may also take this place. In "Vasilissa the Beautiful", the heroine is aided by a wooden doll that her dying mother had given her; in "Rushen Coatie", by a red calf sent to her by her dead mother, a calf that can continue to aid her after its death; in "Katie Woodencloak" by a mysterious dun bull; in "Tattercoats",
The Dragon (fairy tale) its preamble, yet while the plotting queen has met her doom in appropriate fashion, there is incongruity in the serial rapist-murderer king getting away scot-free without being discomfitted in the least. The Dragon (fairy tale) The Dragon () is an Italian literary fairy tale, included in Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone" (Tale IV.5), first published 1635. In the English language, the tale was a selection in Thomas Keightley's "Fairy Mythology" (1828), and later appeared in John Edward Taylor (fl. 1840-1855)'s translation of the entire work, "The Pentamerone, or, The Story of Stories, Fun for the Little Ones" (1848). The tale has been