Most variants of this ATU type come from the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Les Fées" or "The Fairies," but the general story comes from a widespread traditional folktale popular in Europe and ...

ATU 704 is a story first published by Hand Christian Anderson ... The queen places a pea under a large number of mattresses in the girl's room, and when she wakes up she is bruised, revealing that she ...