A common fairy tale trope is for a king to give away his daughter in marriage to a man who can perform some extraordinary feat: kill the dragon terrorizing the land (The Two Brothers), find some impossibly lost object (The Queen Bee) or, as a reward for kindness. (Bearskin, though not a princess; but still, […]

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