The Three Heads of the Well
| The Three Heads of the Well | |
|---|---|
The girl finds the head in the well. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Three Heads of the Well |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 480, "The Kind and Unkind Girls" |
| Region | England |
| Published in | English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892) |
The Three Heads in the Well is a fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales.
It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type ATU 480, The Kind and Unkind Girls. Others of this type include Shita-kiri Suzume, Diamonds and Toads, Mother Hulda, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch, and The Two Caskets. Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.