[5] Some variants may begin akin to type ATU 425C, "Beauty and the Beast": the third daughter asks her father for a present, a memento that belongs to the Bird Prince that she will use to contact him.
[13] In an article in Enzyklopädie des Märchens, folklorist Christine Goldberg noted the many objects the heroine asks her father in variants of the tale type: a feather, a plant or branch, but also a mirror, a violin, or a book.
[3] According to professors Stith Thompson, Pino Saavedra [es], Anna Angelopoulou and Aigle Broskou, the tale type is "especially popular" in Mediterranean countries, being found in Iberian Peninsula and in Greece.
[16] In the Typen türkischer Volksmärchen ("Turkish Folktale Catalogue"), by Wolfram Eberhard and Pertev Naili Boratav, both scholars identified a cycle of stories they classified as TTV 102, "Die Traube I" ("The Grape - Version I"),[21] with 31 variants registered.
[23][18][24][25] German folklorists Otto Spies [de] and Manfred Hesse stated that the tale type was "widespread" in the Arab-speaking regions, although with different motifs.