The following tales are similar to the Goose Girl fairy tale, AT-533. 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 Goose Girl 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.

Fair Margaret  
The Fairy Child  
The Golden Bracelet  
The Goose Girl  *
The Lamplight Princess
Jubeinah and the Slave  
The Maiden from whose Head Pearls fell on combing herself *
Roswal and Lilian  
The Treacherous Slave Girl  
The Two Cakes  *
Untombi-yapansi *

* Full text of tale is available online.

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

This tale is AT-533.

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-533.

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-533.

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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This is the version of the tale I have annotated on this site at The Annotated Goose Girl.

This tale is AT-533.

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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Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. "Goose Girl." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-533. The tale comes from Vietnam.

An English language version is available in:

Vuong, Lynnette Dyer. The Brocaded Slipper, and Other Vietnamese Tales. Vo-Dinh Mai, illustrator. New York: Lippincott, 1985, c1982.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-533.

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 can be found at The Maiden from whose Head Pearls fell on combing herself.

This tale shares many traits with AT-533.

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-533.

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.

This tale is AT-533.

An English language version is available in:

Arewa, Erastus Ojo. A Classification of the Folktales of Northern East Africa Cattle Area By Types. Folklore of the World. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

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A web version is at The Two Cakes.

This tale is AT-533.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932. Day 4, Tale 7.

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

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A web version is at Untombi-yapansi.

This tale comes from the Zulu tribe. To my knowledge, this tale is not categorized as a tale type. However, you can find many similarties between it and the Goose Girl story, especially the element of the replaced bride.

An English language version is available in:

Callaway, Rev. Canon. Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, In Their Own Words, With a Translation Into English and Notes. Vol 1. London: John A. Blair, 1868.
(Reprinted in 1970 by Negro Universities Press; Westport, CT.)

Thanks to Midori Snyder for sharing this story with me.

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