[1] It is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson index as ATU 480, "The Kind and the Unkind Girls", and segues into type 403B, "The Black and The White Bride", in that the heroine is replaced by a female relative in order to trick her husband.
One day, the man took his daughter to cut wood and found when he returned that he had left his axe.
The stepmother beat her stepdaughter, and was all the angrier when the doves restored the wreath to its condition and the girl's head.
The prince found them and said they deserved to die, but the stepdaughter had persuaded him to merely abandon them on a desert island.
First, there is the "kind and unkind girls" tale,[6] where variants include "Mother Hulda", "Diamonds and Toads", "The Three Heads in the Well", "The Two Caskets", and "Father Frost".
[8] Second, the theme of the stepmother (or another woman) managing to usurp the true bride's place after the marriage, is often found in other fairy tales, where the obstacles to the marriage differ, if they were part of the tale: "The Wonderful Birch", "Brother and Sister", "The Witch in the Stone Boat", or "The White Duck".