Father Frost is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev. Andrew Lang included it, as "The Story of King Frost", in The Yellow Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 480, The Kind and the Unkind Girls. A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (11 July 1826 — 23 October 1871) was a Russian folklorist best known for his pioneering study and publication of Russian folktales. ... For the former National Basketball Association player, see Andrew Lang (basketball). ... Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, by Henry J. Ford Andrew Langs Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. ... Antti Amatus Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. ...

Synopsis

A woman had a stepdaughter and a daughter of her own, and she hated her stepdaughter. One day, she ordered her husband to take her out into the winter fields and leave her there, and he obeyed. Father Frost found her there, and she was polite and kind to him, and he gave her a chest full of beautiful things and fine garments. When her stepmother sent her father to bring back her body to be buried, he went, and the dog said that she was coming back beautiful and happy, and despite the bribe of a pancake, went on saying it. A stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent marries someone new. ...

When the stepmother saw what her stepdaughter had brought back, she ordered her husband to bring her own daughter out to the fields. The girl was rude to Father Frost, and he froze her to death. When her husband went out to bring her back, the dog said that she would be buried, and despite the bribe of a pancake, repeated it. When he brought back the body, the old woman wept.

See also

• Mother Hulda
• Diamonds and Toads
• The Three Heads in the Well
• The Three Little Men in the Wood

Mother Hulda is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of Childrens and Household Tales. ... Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him Les Fees or The Fairies. ...

External links

• SurLaLune Fairy Tale site Father Frost