The King of Love (Sicilian: Lu Re d'Amuri) is an Italian fairy tale from Sicily collected by Giuseppe Pitre and translated into English by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. It is part of the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom and classified as tale type Aarne-Thompson-Uther type ATU 425B, "Son of the Witch", thus distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche, in that the heroine is forced to perform difficult tasks for a witch.
The King of Love (Sicilian: Lu Re d'Amuri) is an Italian fairy tale from Sicily collected by Giuseppe Pitre and translated into English by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. It is part of the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom and classified as tale type Aarne-Thompson-Uther type ATU 425B, "Son of the Witch", thus distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche, in that the heroine is forced to perform difficult tasks for a witch.
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