I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.

Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Ashliman, D. L.  The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them. New York: Meridian, 1992.
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Briggs, Katharine. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1967. [London: Routledge Classics, 2002].
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Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
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Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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Dorson, Richard M., ed. Folklore and Folklife. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Freiburg, Herder. The Herder Dictionary of Symbols. Wilmette Illinois: Chiron Publications, 1986.

"Habiller." Def. 6. Larousse Advanced Dictionary Francais-Anglais/English-French. 2003.

"Hop O' My Thumb." The Compact Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1991.

Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.org.
Accessed on March 31, 2006.

Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Luthi, Max. The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.  New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

"Ogre." The Compact Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1991.

Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Philip, Neil, and Nicoletta Simborowski, trans. The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. New York: Clarion Books, 1993.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946. [Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.]
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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Tresidder, Jack, ed. The Complete Dictionary of Symbols. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.

Warner, Marina.  From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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