The King of Love
Italian fairy tale from Sicily / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the hymn, see The King of Love My Shepherd Is.
The King of Love (Sicilian: Lu Re d'Amuri)[1] is an Italian fairy tale from Sicily collected by Giuseppe Pitre[2] and translated into English by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales.[3][4]
It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type 425B, "Son of the Witch", thus distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche, and belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband.