The Girl from the Egg (German folktale)

Summary

Das Mädchen aus dem Ei is a Carpathian-German tale from Banat collected from a German source and published by ehtnographer Alexander Tietz. It is classified as tale type ATU 408, "The Love for Three Oranges", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. As with The Three Oranges, the tale deals with a prince's search for a bride that lives inside an egg, who is replaced by a false bride and goes through a cycle of incarnations, until she regains physical form again.