The following tales are similar to the Donkeyskin fairy tale, AT-510B, "Unnatural Love." 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 Donkeyskin 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.

In 1892, Marian Roalfe Cox compiled Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated. This rare book is now available on SurLaLune. While the tales are only provided in abstracts and tabulations, the common themes across the variants make an interesting study. See especially the Catskin variants to compare with the Donkeyskin tale.

Also see the tales of AT-510: Cinderella, of which Donkeyskin is a subvariant, on SurLaLune at Tales Similar to Cinderella.

All-Kinds-of Fur *
Allerleirauh *
Ashley Pelt
Ass'-Skin *
Barbarina and the Black Snake
The Bear *
Betta Pilusa
The Black Yow
Broomthrow, Brushthrow, Combthrow *
Cap O' Rushes *
Catskins
Catskin *
Catskin: The Princess and the Golden Cow
Delgadina
Donkey Skin (France, Lang) *
Donkey Skin (Falassi)
Donkey Skin (France, Perrault)
Doralice *
Fair Maria Wood *
Florinda
The Flying Princess
Gold Teeth *
The Golden Box
The Golden Filly Chest
The Grey Castle
Hanchi
Katie Woodencloak
The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter *
Like Meat Loves Salt
The Little Blue Bonnet
Little Cat Skin
The Little Donkey Mother
The Little Stick Figure
Margery White Coats *
Mossycoat
The Princess in the Catskins (Ireland) *
The Princess in the Donkey Skin
The Princess in the Suit of Leather
Princess Mouseskin
Princess That Wore a Rabbit-Skin Dress
The Princess Who Would Not Marry Her Father (Portugal) *
The Princess Whose Father Wanted to Marry Her
The Queen with the Golden Hair
Rashie Coat
Rashiecoat
Rashin Coatie
The Red Calf
The She Donkey's Skin
The She-Bear *
The Silver Dress, the Gold Dress, and the Diamond Dress
The Step-Mother and the Step-Daughter *
The Story of Catskin *
Tattercoats *
Tebaldo Wishes to Have His Only Daughter Doralice to Wife *
The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin *
Wooden Maria

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale is available at All-Kinds-of-Fur.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is available at Allerleirauh.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Green Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1892.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

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 Ass'-Skin.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Webster, Wentworth. Basque Legends. London: Griffith and Farran, 1877.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

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 is available at The Bear.

This tale is AT-510B.

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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This tale is AT-510B.

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 does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

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 on D. L. Ashliman's site at Broomthrow, Brushthrow, Combthrow.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Ashliman's Source: Theodor Vernaleken, Kinder- und Hausmärchen, dem Volke treu nacherzählt (Wien und Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1896), no. 33, pp. 144-148.

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A web version of the Joseph Jacobs tale is available at Cap O' Rushes.

This tale is AT-510B.

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.

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

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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*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Catskins stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/catskin.htm.

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A web version of this tale is available at Catskin.

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Robb, John David. Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest: A Self-Portrait of a People. University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. A2a-j, 31-43.

Paredes, Américo. A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border. University of Texas Press, 1995. p. 5, 14-16.

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A web version of this tale is the one annotated on this site at Donkey Skin.

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Falassi, Alessandro. Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

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A web version of this tale does not exist at this time. I hope to add it in the future.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Perrault.

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A web version of the tale is available at Doralice.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Straparola, Giovanni Francesco. The Facetious Nights by Straparola. W. G. Waters, translator. Jules Garnier and E. R. Hughes, illustrators. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901. 4 volumes.

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A web version of this tale is at Fair Maria Wood.

This tale is AT-510B.

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 does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Pino-Saaverdra, Yolando, ed. Folktales of Chile. Rockwell Gray, ed. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Dawkins, R. M., ed. and trans. Modern Greek Folktales. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1953.

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A web version of this tale is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at Gold Teeth.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

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This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, Marie. Tales from the Cloud Walking Country. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. (Reprint available from Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.)

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Ramanujan, A. K. Folktales from India. New York: Pantheon, 1992. p. 285.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale is available at The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected. London: Alexander Gardner, 1890-1893. (Reprint available from Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1969.)

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Gmelch, George and Ben Kroup, eds. To Shorten the Road. Toronto: Macmillian of Canada, 1978.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, Marie. Tales from the Cloud Walking Country. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. (Reprint available from Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.)
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Catskins stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/catskin.htm.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Taggart, James M. Enchanted Maidens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. p. 204.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Pino-Saaverdra, Yolando, ed. Folktales of Chile. Rockwell Gray, ed. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

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A web version of this tale is available at Margery White Coats.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected. London: Alexander Gardner, 1890-1893. (Reprint available from Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1969.)

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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 The Princess in the Catskins.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Kennedy, Patrick. Fireside Stories of Ireland. Dublin: McGlashlin and Gill, 1870. pp. 81-87.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Bushnaq, Inea, ed. and trans. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

Note: The Grimms included the story in their first collection of tales, but later removed it in 1819 due to its obviously close relationship to Perrault's Donkeyskin.

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. Grimm's Other Tales. William Hansen, selector. Ruth Michael-Jenas and Arthur Ratcliff, translators. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1956.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, Marie. Tales from the Cloud Walking Country. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. (Reprint available from Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.)
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Catskins stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/catskin.htm.

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A web version of this tale is available at The Princess Who Would Not Marry Her Father.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Pedroso, Consiglieri. Portuguese Folk-Tales. Folk Lore Society Publications, Vol. 9. Miss Henrietta Monteiro, translator. New York: Folk Lore Society Publications, 1882.
[Reprinted: New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1969.]
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Ramanujan, A. K. Folktales from India. New York: Pantheon, 1992. p. 186.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, Marie. Tales from the Cloud Walking Country. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. (Reprint available from Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.)
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Catskins stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/catskin.htm.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Aitken, Hannah, ed. A Forgotten Heritage: Original Folk Tales of Lowland Scotland. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

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-510B.

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-510B.

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 is available at The She-Bear.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone, or The Story of Stories. John Edward Taylor, translator. London: David Bogue, 1850.

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Ramanujan, A. K. Folktales from India. New York: Pantheon, 1992. p. 186.

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A web version of this tale is available at The Step-Mother and the Step-Daughter.

An English language version is available in:

Webster, Wentworth. Basque Legends. London, 1877.

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A web version of this tale is available at The Story of Catskin.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Halliwell, James Orchard. The Nursery Rhymes of England. (London, 1853), pp. 22-31.

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A web version of the Jospeh Jacobs tale is available at Tattercoats. A web version of the Briggs' tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-510B.

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.

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 is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at Tebaldo Wishes to Have His Only Daughter Doralice to Wife. See also Doralice on SurLaLune.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Ashliman's Source: The Facetious Nights of Straparola, translated by W. G. Waters (London: privately printed for members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901), vol. 1, pp. 79-101 (night 1, tale 4).

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A web version of this tale is available at The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin.

This tale is similar to AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Dixon, James. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. London, 1857. Pp. 115-122.

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

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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