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====France==== [[Paul Sébillot]] collected two variants from [[Brittany]] in northwestern France. In the first one, titled ''The Enchanted Stockings'' (''Les Bas enchantés''), starts similarly to Gubernatis' version, with the heroine being the daughter of a queen, and her mother wanting to kill her after a soldier marching in front of her balcony says the princess is prettier than the queen. The role of the poisoned apple is fulfilled by the titular stockings, and the heroine is revived after the prince's little sister takes them off when she's playing.<ref>Sébillot, Paul ''Contes Populaires de la Haute-Bretagne'' Paris: G. Charpentier 1880 pp. 146-150</ref><ref>Tatar, Maria ''The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and Other 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters'' Harvard University Press 2020 pp. 89-93</ref> In the second, titled [[La petite Toute-Belle]], a servant accuses the heroine of stealing the things she stole and then throws her in a well. The heroine survives the fall and ends up living with three dragons that live at the bottom of the well. When the heroine's mother discovers her daughter is still alive, she twice sends a fairy to attempt to kill her, first with sugar almonds, which the dragons warn her are poisoned before she eats them, and then with a red dress.<ref>Sébillot, Paul ''Contes des Landes et des grèves'' Rennes: Hyacinthe Caillière 1900 pp. 144-152</ref> In another version from Brittany, this one collected by François Cadic, the heroine is called Rose-Neige (Eng: Snow-Rose) because her mother pricked her finger with a rose in a snowy day and wished to have a child as beautiful as the rose. The role of the dwarfs is played by [[Korrigan]]s, dwarf-like creatures from the Breton folklore.<ref>Cadic, François ''Contes et légendes de Bretagne'' Tome Second Rennes: Terre de Brume University Press 1999 pp. 293-299</ref> Louis Morin collected a version from [[Troyes]] in northeastern France, where like in the Grimm's version the mother questions a magic mirror.<ref>Morin, Louis ''Revue des Traditions Populaires'' Volume 5 Paris: J. Maisonneuve 1890 pp. 725-728</ref> A version from [[Corsica]] titled ''Anghjulina'' was collected by [[Geneviève Massignon]], where the roles of both the huntsman and the dwarfs are instead a group of bandits whom Anghjulina's mother asks to kill her daughter, but they instead take her away to live with them in the woods.<ref>Massignon, Geneviève ''Contes Corses'' Paris: Picard 1984 pp. 169-171</ref>
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