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Overview
A poor boy gathering wood encounters a very small, beautiful hind with a golden apple hanging at her neck. She speaks, inviting him to her lair and offering money and happiness. An unidentified advising voice tells him to refuse those promises and request the apple instead; the hind hands it over.
Splitting the apple brings forth four giants who obey the boy’s requests. The hind does not reappear during the theft and recovery of the object. The narrative leaves her identity and the advising voice unexplained; it supplies no human transformation or captive-princess identity for her.
Origins & earliest records
Consiglieri Pedroso, Portuguese Folk-Tales, translated from the original manuscript by Henriqueta Monteiro, London: Elliot Stock for the Folk-Lore Society, 1882; tale XXX, pp. 121–124. The selected account does not identify an individual narrator or collecting locality.
Records & interpretation
The located 1882 English translation presents this figure within a complete collected narrative. Pedroso’s introductory pp. 1–2 describe the thirty published selections from his larger collection.
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Portuguese Folk-Tales, tale XXX, pp. 121–124
Located complete narrative in the original London edition; Ralston’s comparative introduction is separate commentary.
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- Primary textPortuguese Folk-Tales, original 1882 edition scan and transcriptionResearch access: 2026-10-05
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