The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette

The Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
Princess Parizade retrieves the speaking bird Bulbul-Hazar. Illustration by Willy Pogany for More Tales from the Arabian Nights (1915).
Folk tale
NameThe Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 707 (The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird; The Bird of Truth; The Three Golden Children; The Three Golden Sons)
Published inThe Arabian Nights (French edition) by Antoine Galland (1707–1710)
RelatedAncilotto, King of Provino; Princess Belle-Étoile and Prince Chéri; The Tale of Tsar Saltan;

The Sisters who Envied Their Cadette[a] (French: Histoire des deux sœurs jalouses de leur cadette) is a fairy tale collected by French orientalist Antoine Galland and published in his translation of The Arabian Nights, a compilation of Arabic and Persian fairy tales.

It is related to the motif of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".
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