ABSTRACT
Modern folktale versions of the story there undoubtedly are: Swahn was able to study an assemblage of well into four figures in the same manner as Rooth had studied versions of Cinderella.3 Something of the range of the tale as classified (AT Type 425A) can be seen from such examples as the following:
A princess is shown her way home by a mysterious voice inside an iron stove; she is to return, release and marry him; after two false substitutes are offered he threatens to destroy her father’s kingdom if she is not sent. She comes, and finds a handsome prince inside the stove. She is not to speak more than three words to her father, or her prince will be carried off. She does, and has to search for the flying stove: crossing mountains and lakes, but helped by a family of frogs; she finds him about to marry a witch’s daughter, but jogs his memory just in time. All is disenchanted.
