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Jack Frost And Grimm Tales
The Russian fairytale Jack Frost echoes many of the same characteristics as the Grimm tales. Jack Frost begins with a girl who has a cruel stepmother who hates her and tries to get rid of her. The stepmother convinces the father to leave his own daughter to die in the middle of the forest in winter. However, when Jack Frost, a personification of winter, comes to freeze her to death he is swayed by her kind words and instead rewards her with treasures. When the daughter returns wealthy and beautiful, the stepmother immediately sends her own daughter out into the frozen forest to get her own rewards. However, Jack Frost does not find her worthy, and kills her.
Jack Frost follows a literary pattern almost identical to the Grimm’s tales. Like

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