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Kate Crackernuts

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"Kate Crackernuts" is an English Fairy Tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. It's a Gender Flip of The Twelve Dancing Princesses.Kate's mother, who is a queen, marries Anne's father, who is a king. Anne is prettier than Kate, so the queen consults with a henwife, who after two tries manages to replace Anne's head with a sheep's one.Kate discovers this, wraps Anne's head with a linen cloth, and takes her by the hand to lead her as they go out to find their fortune.When they look for lodging, they find a king's castle, where there are two princes, one of whom is sick. Everyone who has stayed the night with him has vanished. Kate decides to stay with him.The next night, the prince gets up in the darkness and rides off. Kate jumps on the horse as well, and when he announces who he is, she adds herself. She finds them to be in the abode of The Fair Folk, who make the prince dance even when he is collapsing with exhaustion. The next two nights, she discovers a way to disenchant Anne, and then the prince. She marries the prince, and meanwhile his brother has fallen in love with Anne at first sight, so they marry, too.Full text here.
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Rescue Romance
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Rescue Romance: Kate gets this.
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Fairest of Them All
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Fairest of Them All: The queen's motive for attacking Anne.
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The Quest
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The Quest: They set out to seek their fortune.
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Green-Eyed Monster
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Green-Eyed Monster: The start of it all.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Kate is much more active than the stereotypical fairy-tale princess, and uses her cleverness to secure her happy ending. She negotiates a job taking care of the ill prince, uses some well-placed nuts to swipe a magic wand and magic bird to save Anne and the prince, and wins the prince's hand in marriage.
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Kate's job is to watch the prince while he sleeps, monitoring his condition as he suffers from a mysterious illness. For the first part of the night, all is normal, but at the stroke of twelve he suddenly gets up in a trance. He dresses himself, saddles his horse, and rides off to a fairy mound where he's compelled to dance the life out of himself until the cock crows.
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Anne gets cursed because she's prettier than Kate, even though Kate doesn't care about the difference in looks.
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Exact Eavesdropping
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Exact Eavesdropping: On the second night, Kate overhears a fairy saying that three waves of a wand a fairy child is playing with will disenchant Anne. On the third night, the child is playing with a magic bird, and Kate overhears the same fairy saying that three bites of it will disenchant the prince. Kate makes the child let go of the wand and then the bird by secretly rolling some nuts to him.
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Involuntary Dance
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Involuntary Dance: The prince is not allowed to not dance. Every person that his father and brother have sent to watch him have disappeared, presumably having been danced to death by the fair folk.
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Family-Unfriendly Violence
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Family-Unfriendly Violence: The henwife doesn't merely transform Anne's head into a sheep's; she uses her magic to sever Anne's head from her body and pop a sheep's head on in its place. Some illustrations show Anne's true head mid-scream upon looking at herself.
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Tomboy Princess
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Tomboy Princess: Kate takes on the role more typically associated with princes in fairy tales. She defies a wicked queen, braves a dangerous quest with nothing but her wits, saves a princess from an evil spell, and wins the prince's hand in marriage after breaking a different evil spell.
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The Fair Folk
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The Fair Folk: Rare birds for a fairy tale: actual fairies.
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Double In-Law Marriage
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Double In-Law Marriage: It ends with two (step-)sisters marrying two brothers.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Comes off this way compared to The Twelve Dancing Princesses—while the princesses seem to just love dancing all night for fun, the prince in this story is left as an invalid and is unable to function during the day as a result.
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Nameless Narrative
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Nameless Narrative: Kate and Anne are the only characters with names.
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Half-Human Hybrid
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Half-Human Hybrid: From neck down, Anne remains a human princess, but her head has been replaced with that of a sheep.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Even by fairy tale standards, the number three has a significance to nearly every major plot development: It takes the Queen and the hen wife three tries to successfully replace Anne's head with a sheep's head. This is because, the first two times, Anne had eaten on the way. Kate follows the prince to three different fairy balls. Three waves of the fairy child's wand turn Anne back to normal. Three bites of the magic bird cure the prince.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: After Anne is cursed, the Queen just goes home, and the henwife who helped her is never mentioned again.
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Love at First Sight
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Love at First Sight: Both princes and princesses.
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Wicked Stepmother
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Wicked Stepmother: Kate's mother. Kate, thankfully, is nothing like her.
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Standard Hero Reward
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Standard Hero Reward: Each night she watches the prince, Kate's payments progressively get more impressive. On night one, she's paid with a peck of silver. On night two, she's paid with a peck of gold, and on night three, she negotiates permission to marry the prince.
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Princess in Rags
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Princess in Rags: Princesses Anne and Kate live as humble wanderers as they try to find some way to break the henwife's spell. They eventually find lodging in another kingdom, where Kate takes a job caring for his sick son, eventually marrying him after saving his life.
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Curse
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Curse: Anne has a sheep's head on her shoulders, and every night the prince enters a trance where he travels to a fairy hall and nearly dances himself to death.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Ann and Kate.
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Beauty to Beast
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Beauty to Beast: Anne is described as the prettier of the two princesses. Envious that her stepdaughter is prettier than her own daughter, the Queen conspires with a henwife to turn Anne into a sheep-woman hybrid.
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Princess Classic
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Princess Classic: Anne is sweet, innocent, and the Fairest of Them All. This enrages her stepmother, who believes that distinction should go to her own daughter, Kate. So the queen conspires with a Wicked Witch to turn Anne into a monster. However, Kate defies the usual "wicked stepsister" trope, abandoning her mother and the throne to travel with Anne in search of a way to lift the spell.
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Wicked Witch
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Wicked Witch: The henwife who helps the queen.
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Princess Protagonist
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Princess Protagonist: Kate is our main character, and she's a great deal more active than many of her fellow royal heroines.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: Enforced. In the original source, both the princesses were named Kate . Jacobs decided it was too confusing and renamed the other one as Anne.
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Dances and Balls
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Dances and Balls: Singularly unpleasant ones, as you would expect from the Fair Folk.
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Good Princess, Evil Queen
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Good Princess, Evil Queen: The Queen conspires to curse Princess Anne with ugliness so as to make her own daughter, Kate, lovelier by comparison. However, unlike most stepsisters in fairy tales, Kate is horrified by what her mother has done and flees the kingdom with Anne to find a way to break the spell.
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Distressed Dude: The sick prince.
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