The following tales are similar to the Rapunzel fairy tale, AT-310. 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 Rapunzel 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.

Anthousa the Fair with Golden Hair
Beautiful Angiola
Beautiful Catharinella
The Canary Prince
The Fair Angiola *
The Fated Marriage
Filagranata
Fragolette
The Garden Witch
The Girl on the Island
The Godchild of the Fairy in the Tower 
Golden Hair; or, the Little Frog
King of Denmark's Son
The Lady of Shalott *
Louliyya, Daughter of Morgan
The Maid and the Negress
The Maiden in the Tower
Parsillette
Persinette
Petrosinella *
Prezzemolina
The Princess; or, Fair One of the World
Prunella *
Rapunzel *
Reptensil
Uzembeni; or, Usikulumi’s Courtship
The White Cat *

* Full text of tale is available online.

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

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

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

This tale is AT-310. This tale is the source of Thomas Crane's The Fair Angiola.

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 at this time. I hope to add it in the future.

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

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-310.

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 can be found at The Fair Angiola.

This tale is AT-310. Thomas Crane references Laura Gonzenbach's Beautiful Angiola for this tale.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

Dawkins, R. M., ed. and trans. More Greek Folktales. London: Clarendon Press, 1955.

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

This tale is AT-310. The tale is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310. The tale is from France.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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

This tale is AT-310.

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-310.

An English language version is available in:

O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

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

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310.

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-310.

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 poem can be found at The Lady of Shalott.

This 1833/1842 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is not technically a fairy tale, but part of the Arthurian legends about Elaine and her love for Sir Lancelot. However, many paintings and images have been inspired by this story as penned by Tennyson. I have been asked at times to offer the poem as a maiden in the tower story with Rapunzel. Here it is.

Also available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

For further reading about the Lady of Shalott, please visit this wonderful website:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/elanmenu.htm

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

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

El-Shamy, Hasan M., ed. and trans. Folktales of Egypt. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310. The tale is from Portugal.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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

This tale is AT-310.

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 does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310. The tale is from France.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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

This tale is AT-310.

This French tale by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force predates the Grimms' Rapunzel.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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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Text available at Petrosinella from Giambattista Basile's Il Pentamerone.

This tale is AT-310. In this tale, a pregnant woman takes parsley to eat out of the garden of an ogress, and, caught in the act, promises the ogress to give her the child about to be born. Petrosinella is born, and the ogress takes her and shuts her up in a tower. A prince carries her off, and by virtue of three acorns the lovers escape the menace of the ogress, and Petrosinella, brought by her lover to his house, becomes the Princess. The heroine is admirable in this tale and engineers her successful escape from the tower.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932, Day 2, Tale 1.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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

This tale is AT-310.

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-310.

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 can be found at Prunella.

This tale is AT-310.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Grey Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1900.)
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A web version of the tale exists at many locations. The version used on this site was adapted by Andrew Lang from the Grimms' collection.

This tale is AT-310.

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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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Lang, Andrew, ed. "Rapunzel." The Red Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1966. (Original published 1890.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-310.

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-310. The tale is from South Africa.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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A web version of this French tale can be found at The White Cat.

This tale is not of the same tale type as Rapunzel, but it has a Maiden in the Tower story embedded within it which explains the White Cat's enchantment.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Lang, Andrew, ed. "The White Cat." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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