La petite Toute-Belle

"La petite Toute-Belle" ("Little Toute-Belle"; Breton: Bihan Holl-Kaer) is a Breton fairy tale published in 1900 by Paul Sébillot in Contes des landes et des grèves.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow-White. Others of this type include Bella Venezia, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, Myrsina, Nourie Hadig and The Young Slave.

In the tale, a daughter is framed for stealing jewelry from her mother. Her mother orders her death, but wants the death to seem accidental. A female servant pushes the daughter into a well, but the daughter returns unharmed the following day. The mother decides to poison her daughter with sugared almonds, but the daughter is informed that the almonds are poisoned and does not eat them. An evil fairy working for the mother arranges for the girl to wear a poisoned dress. The daughter falls into a deathlike sleep, but she wakes up when her dress is removed. A king decides to marry the daughter and to execute his new mother-in-law.

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