Line #5 Literature/OneEyeTwoEyesThreeEyes


1	[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oneeyetwoeyesthreeeyes.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:316:The Wise Woman comforts Two-Eyes. Illustration by Hermann Vogel.]]
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4	"One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes" (German: ''Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein'') is a FairyTale collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm and included in their collection ''Children's and Household Tales'' (''Kinder- und Hausmärchen''). The tale is classified as a Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 511.
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6	A woman has three daughters, each named after the number of eyes they have. Two-Eyes, being the most normal of her sisters, is mistreated by her family, but her KnightInShiningArmor might not be too far off.
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8	The tale is in the public domain and can be read in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200221220256/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/130onetwothreeyes.html SurLaLune]], [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52521/52521-h/52521-h.htm#hdr_46 Project Gutenberg]], [[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/one_eye_two_eyes_and_three_eyes here]] and [[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/One-Eye,_Two-Eyes,_and_Three-Eyes.html#gsc.tab=0 here]].
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11	!!This tale provides examples of:
12	* AdaptationalVillainy: In a Russian version, Two-Eyes is just as evil as her sisters, and an orphan living with the family is the heroine.
13	* AdaptedOut:
14	** The Russian version cuts the FairyGodmother and has the helpful animal, here a cow, advise the heroine.
15	** Some versions cut out the mother and just have the two sisters mistreat Two-Eyes.
16	* CinderellaPlot: Two-Eyes is constantly mistreated by her mother and sisters:
17	-->Now, as Two-Eyes saw just as other human beings did, her sisters and her mother could not endure her. They said to her, "You, with your two eyes, are no better than common folk. You do not belong to us!"\
18	They pushed her about, and threw old clothes to her, and gave her nothing to eat but what they left, and did everything that they could to make her unhappy.
19	* EasilyForgiven: Two-Eyes graciously forgives her sisters after her marriage to the knight.
20	* EvilMatriarch: The mother cannot stand her second daughter because she has two eyes. So, she strikes and insults Two-Eyes, forces her to wear rags and eat leftovers. Tellingly, Two-Eyes eventually forgives her sisters but not her mother. It is a rare instance where the villainous biological mother isn't rewritten as a WickedStepmother.
21	* FailedASpotCheck: When Two-Eyes starts showing signs of better health and esteem, her mother has One-Eye spy on her to see what she is up to. Two-Eyes enchants her single eye so she falls asleep and she cannot see her summon food with a spell. The mother then sends Three-Eyes to spy on her and Two-Eyes tries the same spell... but only enchants two of her eyes, so Three-Eyes sees everything with her third.
22	* FairyGodmother: A fairy -also called a Wise Woman- teaches Two-Eyes one spell to summon food.
23	* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: After the death of the goat, the wise woman advises Two-Eyes to bury its heart. From the goat's heart a tree with silver leaves and golden fruits sprouts, which only Two-Eyes can pluck. Doing so nets her the prince and the ticket out of her deplorable situation.
24	* GenderFlip: A Chinese version exists where "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes" are boys. The FairyGodmother equivalent is also a man. The evil mother is the same, however.
25	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The wicked mother isn't mentioned in the epilogue when the sisters come begging because they've fallen on hard times. This is often taken to imply she died off-screen.
26	* KnightInShiningArmor: A knight takes Two-Eyes away from her evil family and marries her.
27	* LostInTranslation: Two Eye's helper is described as a "White Woman," usually rendered a "Wise Woman" in English. This doesn't just mean a lady who knows a thing or two. The Grimm Brothers usually censored references to fairies, rewriting references to them as "White Women," Germanic light elves likely based off the Dutch Witte Wieven. This was because the Grimms wanted their stories to be as authentically as "German" as possible and thought "fairies" were too "French."
28	* MiddleChildSyndrome: One Eye is the eldest, Two Eyes is the middle daughter, and Three Eyes is the youngest. Because Two Eyes was similar to the common people, the evil mother mistreated her.
29	* NoNameGiven: Neither the evil mother nor the kind knight are given names.
30	* YoungestChildWins: Averted. Two-Eyes is the middle daughter.
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