Andrew Lang included it, as "Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes", in The Green Fairy Book.

One day Little Two Eyes was sent to the field to tend to the goat, she sat down and cried as she had been given so little to eat and when she looked up a woman was standing beside her.

Little Two Eyes ate until she was full and said the words the woman told her would make the table disappear, and immediately it was all gone.

Little Two Eyes returned home in the evening and found the plate of leftovers her sisters had left for her, but she did not touch it.

Her mother then, in rage that Little Two Eyes thought to live better than her family, fetched a knife and killed the goat.

Little Two Eyes explained and the wise woman told her to bury the heart of the goat as it would bring her luck.

Little Three Eyes was no more successful than her older sister and at last the mother climbed up herself and tried in vain to break off a single piece of fruit.

But instead of treating Little Two Eyes better, her sisters and mother were jealous that only she could pick the golden fruit and were even more unkind than before.

Little Two Eyes, who was still hidden under the empty cask, rolled a couple of golden apples to the Knight's feet.

She climbed up the tree and broke off a small branch with its silver leaves and golden fruit with ease and gave it to the Knight.

[2] According to Thompson, literary treatments of the tale type existed in Sweden and Germany in the 16th century.

[3] Swedish scholar Waldemar Liungman [sv] and German folkorist Hans-Jörg Uther indicated that the type appeared in print as part of author Martin Montanus [de]'s 1560 work Gartengesellschaft.

[4][5] Swiss literary theorist Max Lüthi provided a translation of Montanus's tale, which he sourced from Alsace.

The first time, she casts bread crumbs to make a trail for her to follow, but the birds eat them and she loses her way in the woods.

Gretel ends up betraying the cow's trust and her stepmother orders the animal to be butchered.