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The Sleeping Beauty 'And The Robber Bridegroom'

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Women in fairy tales will most often be classified as a young maiden, these young maidens are often fair young girls that are not married. In the fairy tale, “The Sleeping Beauty,” there exists a lovely young maiden, born of a mother’s wish on a frog, she was so beautiful that the king ordered a banquet in her honor. As the tale goes on, the young maiden is put in a state of distress by the curse of a witch, and she, along with her kingdom sleep for one-hundred years. As all maidens that become distressed do, the girl is saved at the hands of another young suitor, and she is married off. This tale’s stratagem is also reflected in “The Robber Bridegroom,” a young maiden born to a farmer is now growing up, and she begins to have thoughts of
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