She forbade him to pick it up, but after a time, he snuck away from her and got it, and it made him feel as strong as a giant.
They had apples that would make someone sleep for three days and three nights, and the boy would be unable to keep from eating them.
[2] Folklorist Stith Thompson noted that tale types ATU 315, "The Faithless Sister", and ATU 590, "The Prince and the Arm Bands", were so "closely related" that they seemed to be variations of one type, or, at least, have influenced each other.
[3] Both stories related to a betrayal by a female relative (either a sister in type 315, or a mother in type 590), who falls in love with the villain (ogre, robber, devil) and conspires with her new paramour to kill the hero.
[5] In the same vein, researcher Christine Shojaei Kawan states that both types are "basically inseparable", and that it is "logical" to assume they are the same narrative.
[6] Scholar Jack Zipes identifies the 13th-century Anglo-Norman metrical romance Beuve de Hampton as containing "the same plot" as type 590.
[8][9] Thompson supposed that both tales originated in Romania, since both types "appear primarily" in Eastern Europe:[10] in the Balkans ("particularly Roumania"), in Russia, and in the Baltic.
[11] El-Shamy also locates types 315 and 590 across North Africa, including among the Berber populations.
[12] In the same vein, scholars Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana report that tale type 590 "is popular in the Arabic tradition".
[13] According to Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh, the tale type 590 is also popular in Hungary, with 70 variants registered.
[14] According to Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, Greek variants about the hero's mother and her "wicked lover" are found all over Greece, "from Pontos to Epeiros".
[15] Croatian folklorist Maja Bošković-Stulli noted that the Serbo-Croatian epic song Jovan and the Giant Chief, collected by Vuk Karadžić, was a parallel to the tale type 590.