Lovely Ilonka

Lovely Ilonka
Lovely Ilonka
	The bulrush maiden flies off as the prince watches. Illustration by Henry Justice Ford for The Crimson Fairy Book (1903).
Folk tale
Name	Lovely Ilonka
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 408 (The Three Oranges)
Region	Hungary
Related	The Love for Three Oranges; The Pomegranate Fairy; The Belbati Princess; The Prince and the Gypsy Woman; The Gypsy Tsaritsa;

Lovely Ilonka (German: Schön-Ilonka; Hungarian: Szép Ilonka) is a Hungarian fairy tale published in Ungarische Märchen by Elisabet Róna-Sklarek. Andrew Lang included it in The Crimson Fairy Book.

The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 408, "The Love For Three Oranges", albeit in a variation that appears locally in Hungary: instead of fruits, the fairy maiden comes out of reeds or bulrushes.