[2] Others of the first type include "The Master Maid", "The Water Nixie", "Nix Nought Nothing", "Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter", and "Foundling-Bird".

The Brothers Grimm also noted that the scene with the false bride resembles that of "The Singing, Soaring Lark".

[1] Other fairy tales that use a similar motif include "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", "Black Bull of Norroway", "The Feather of Finist the Falcon", "Mr Simigdáli", and "White-Bear-King-Valemon".

At the age of sixteen a prince went hunting and chased a stag; a great man, a king, caught him and carried him off.

The king told the boy that he would call on the prince each hour and if he answered every time, he could marry his daughter, but if not, he would be killed.

Astonished that the prince had completed his task, the king then ordered him to clear a muddy pond and fill it with fish in a day.

Once again, the youngest daughter brought her father food and got him to sleep; then she conjured the Earth workers to clear the pond.

Believing he had lost them, the king returned home only to be told by his wife that the briar and the rose had been the children.

The king's daughter cracked the third walnut and found still more splendid dress and wore it as her wedding gown, but the bride and the false mother were sent away.