D. L. Ashliman, Incest in Indo-European Folktales: "Once there was a king who had a beautiful golden-haired wife. She fell ill, and--realizing that she soon would die--made her husband promise that after her death he would marry no one who was not as beautiful as she. When the time came for the king to remarry, he could find only one such woman in his kingdom: his own daughter. And he announced his intention to marry her... This is not a story of happiness and fulfillment, but rather one of coping and surviving. Countless generations from many nations must have responded to this tale of abuse in much the same manner as Alessandro Falassi's respondents in twentieth-century Italy: They did not like the story very much, but still they told it..."