The following tales are similar to the Brave Little Tailor fairy tale, AT-1640. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Brave Little Tailor story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

The Bear Killer
Brave Kong
The Brave Little Tailor *
The Brave Shoemaker
The Cobbler *
A Dozen at One Blow *
Foma Berinnikov
Herr Lazarus and the Draken *
Ivan the Simpleton
Jack and the Varmints
Jack in the Giants' Newground
Jack Strong, Slayer of Five Hundred
Jack the Giant-Killer
John and the Giants
John Balento
John Glaick, the Brave Tailor
Johnny Gloke *
The Old Cobbler
The Old Magician Sabino
Outwitting Giants
Stupid John Nightgown Who Killed Seven at One Push
The Tailor and the Giants
The Tailor
Valiant John
A Widow's Son

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Lindell, Kristina, and Jan-Ojvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin, eds. Folk Tales from Kammu II: A Story-Teller's Tales. London and Malmo: Curson Press, 1980.

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This tale is AT-1640. It is from Cambodia.

An English language version is available in:

Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

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This is the version of the tale presented on the site with annotations at The Brave Little Tailor.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Gonzenbach, Laura. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Jack Zipes, translator and editor. New York: Routledge, 2004.
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A web version of this tale is available at The Cobbler.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale is available at A Dozen at One Blow.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph, ed. European Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1916.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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A web version of this tale is available at Herr Lazarus and the Draken.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Grey Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1900.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948.
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Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948.
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Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Musick, Ruth Ann. Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1970.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover or paperback.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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A web version of this tale is available at Johnny Gloke.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph, ed. More English Fairy Tales. New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, n. d.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640. It comes from Belgium.

An English language version is available in:

Bodker, Laurits; Hole, Christina; and D'Aronoco, G., eds. European Folk Tales. European Folklore Series, vol. 1. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1963.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Mathias, Elizabeth and Richard Raspa. Italian Folktales in America. Wayne State University Folklore Archive Study Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Villa, Susie Hoogasian. 100 Armenian Tales. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Espinosa, Aurelio M. The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest. J. Manuel Espinosa, ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Roberts, Leonard W. South From Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Massignon, Genevieve, ed. Folktales of France. Jacqueline Hyland, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Thomas, Rosemary Hyde. It's Good to Tell You: French Folktales from Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-1640.

An English language version is available in:

Glassie, Henry, ed. Irish Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

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