page_title: The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples
hierarchical_section_title: The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples
caption_attribution_description: English: "The dragon flew out and caught the queen on the road and carried her away". From the Serbian fairy tale of "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples" in The Allies Fairy Book from 1916 (link to page), illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
context_page_description: "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples" is a work of Serbian epic poetry. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 400, the swan maiden.
  It was published for the first time as a fairy tale by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in 1853, translated into English as "The Golden Apple-tree, and the Nine Peahens" by Elodie Lawton Mijatović, and under a similar title by Woislav M. Petrovitch. American illustrator and poet Katherine Pyle translated the tale as "The Seven Golden Peahens", while keeping its source as Servian.
  Parker Fillmore translated the tale as The Enchanted Peafowl and indicated its source as Yugoslavian.
  Later on it was published as a Bulgarian fairy tale translated as "The Golden Apples and the Nine Peahens" by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, number 38 in 1890.
  Anthologist Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book included a re-translation from a German translation of Karadžić's tale. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales.
context_section_description: "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples" (Zlatna jabuka i devet paunica) is a work of Serbian epic poetry. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 400, the swan maiden.
  It was published for the first time as a fairy tale by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in 1853, translated into English as "The Golden Apple-tree, and the Nine Peahens" (1874) by Elodie Lawton Mijatović, and under a similar title by Woislav M. Petrovitch (1914). American illustrator and poet Katherine Pyle translated the tale as "The Seven Golden Peahens", while keeping its source as Servian.
  Parker Fillmore translated the tale as The Enchanted Peafowl and indicated its source as Yugoslavian.
  Later on it was published as a Bulgarian fairy tale translated as "The Golden Apples and the Nine Peahens" by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, number 38 in 1890. 
  Anthologist Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book included a re-translation from a German translation of Karadžić's tale. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales.
caption: Illustration by Arthur Rackham, from The Allies Fairy Book from 1916. "The dragon flew out and caught the queen on the road and carried her away".
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