"The Three Spinners" (also "The Three Spinning Women"; German: Die drei Spinnerinnen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 14). It is Aarne–Thompson type 501, which is widespread throughout Europe. It has obvious parallels to Rumpelstiltskin and Frau Holle, and obvious differences, so that they are often compared. Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, "The Seven Little Pork Rinds", in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales includes a variant, And Seven!. The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, "Hateful Flax Spinning", but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well known. Source: Wikipedia (en)