The Prince and the Gypsy Woman

The Prince and the Gypsy Woman (Ukrainian: Царевич и цыганка) is a Ukrainian fairy tale, first collected and published by Ukrainian writer and folklorist Panteleimon Kulish in 1847.

The tale is a local form of tale type ATU 408, "The Love for Three Oranges", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. As with The Three Oranges, the tale deals with a prince's search for a bride that lives in an egg, who is replaced by a false bride and goes through a cycle of incarnations, until she regains physical form again. According to scholarship, among the East Slavic languages, variants of the tale type are only found in Ukraine.


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