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The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Wicked Sisters and The Tale of Tsar Saltan include the three sisters' marriages, and the sisterly hostility, though it is unusual to see only one sister evincing it. (The Three Little Birds is even more unusual, in that the oldest sister is the heroine and victim of her sisters.) The Bird of Truth begins with the children already abandoned, through the hostility of nobles to a low-born queen, but follows the same plot thereafter. The Water of Life sends the children after the treasures while omitting the motive to be rid of them; they only wish to make their home pleasant, and the one who told them had no ulterior motive.
The hostility from the mother-in-law is also found in The Boys with the Golden Stars. It is a common motif in other fairy tales, not of this form: Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, and The Six Swans.
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