The Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (German: Vom goldnen Löwen) is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in Sicilianische Märchen.

During the night, the youth implored the princess to help him, and she told him she would wear a white sash when he came hunting for her so he could identify her.

[citation needed] Soon after he developed his classification of folktales, Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne published, in 1912, a study on the collections of the Brothers Grimm, Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn, Danish folklorist Svend Grundtvig, Swiss scholar Laura Gonzenbach and Alexander Afanasyev.

[3] This typing was corroborated by professors Jack Zipes and Stith Thompson, who also classified the tale as AaTh 854, "The Golden Ram".

[7] According to Jack Zipes, the tale type is found in Europe, Turkey and South America, and has a literary tradition.