The Three Fairies

"The Three Fairies" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.

It is Aarne–Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls, and appears to stem from an oral source. Others of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Mother Hulda", "The Three Heads in the Well", "Father Frost", "The Three Little Men in the Wood", "The Enchanted Wreath", "The Old Witch" and "The Two Caskets". Another literary variant is "Aurore and Aimée". In this tale, like many others of this type, the heroine descends into another world where she is tested.