Vietnamese fairy tales

Famous Vietnamese fairy tales include The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree and The Story of Tấm and Cám.^[1] Various tales have been translated into English,^[2]^[3] as well as folk tales containing some elements of fairy tales.^[4]

Well known tales

"The Wishing Pearl" - a peasant befriends an animal and receives a magic gift
"The Student and the Frog" - about a frog who becomes a beautiful woman
Tấm Cám ("The Two Sisters") - a dark Cinderella story
Từ Thức Gặp Tiên ("Từ Thức and the Goddess") - A mandarin meets a girl at a Buddhist temple who is really a goddess.
"The Student and the Painting" - a girl in a painting^[5]^[6]
Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a comical duo in South folk tales
Cây Tre Trăm Đốt ("The Hundred-Knot Bamboo Tree") - a laborer struggles to triumph above his exploitative employer
Coconut Skull [vi]

References

^ Nicole Seitz A Hundred Years of Happiness: A Fable of Life After War - Page 64 2009 "My favorite Vietnamese fairy tale was the Cinderella-like story about Tam and Cam. As a child, I'd ask my mother to recite ... The stepmother wanted all of her husband's favor to go toward the new child, so she told him lies about Tam."
^ Lynette Dyer Vuong Brocaded Slipper: And Other Vietnamese Tales 1999 "A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess."
^ Đình Thâm Nguyễn Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature 1992 Page 163 "Wonder tales from the Far East. lll. by Hans Guggenheim. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1962. 219 pp. includes two Vietnamese fairy tales: "The magic Mango," pp. 166-75, and The ungrateful Tiger," pp. 1 51 -58."
^ Sherry Garland Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam 2001 An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explanatory notes following each story.
^ Luna monthly - Numéros 13 à 31 - Page 21 1970 "The themes of the tales are quite basic: the peasant befriending the animal and receiving a magic gift ("The Wishing Pearl"), the Princess falling in love with a commoner ("The Heart of Crystal"), the Princess who becomes a fish ("The Kingdom ...... the frog who becomes a beautiful woman ("The Student and the Frog"), the Cinderella story ("The Two Sisters"), a flower who is really a fairy queen ("Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen"), and a girl in a painting ("The Student and the Painting")."
^ Kay Nielsen. The wishing pearl, and other tales of Vietnam 1969 "Five traditional Vietnamese fairy tales: The Wishing Pearl; The Heart of Crystal; The Student and the Frog; Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen; and The Student and the Painting."

[1] Nicole Seitz A Hundred Years of Happiness: A Fable of Life After War - Page 64 2009 "My favorite Vietnamese fairy tale was the Cinderella-like story about Tam and Cam. As a child, I'd ask my mother to recite ... The stepmother wanted all of her husband's favor to go toward the new child, so she told him lies about Tam."

[2] Lynette Dyer Vuong Brocaded Slipper: And Other Vietnamese Tales 1999 "A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess."

[3] Đình Thâm Nguyễn Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature 1992 Page 163 "Wonder tales from the Far East. lll. by Hans Guggenheim. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1962. 219 pp. includes two Vietnamese fairy tales: "The magic Mango," pp. 166-75, and The ungrateful Tiger," pp. 1 51 -58."

[4] Sherry Garland Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam 2001 An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explanatory notes following each story.

[5] Luna monthly - Numéros 13 à 31 - Page 21 1970 "The themes of the tales are quite basic: the peasant befriending the animal and receiving a magic gift ("The Wishing Pearl"), the Princess falling in love with a commoner ("The Heart of Crystal"), the Princess who becomes a fish ("The Kingdom ...... the frog who becomes a beautiful woman ("The Student and the Frog"), the Cinderella story ("The Two Sisters"), a flower who is really a fairy queen ("Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen"), and a girl in a painting ("The Student and the Painting")."

[6] Kay Nielsen. The wishing pearl, and other tales of Vietnam 1969 "Five traditional Vietnamese fairy tales: The Wishing Pearl; The Heart of Crystal; The Student and the Frog; Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen; and The Student and the Painting."

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