soup for the royal guests and lets a diamond ring slip inside. The prince eats the soup, finds the ring and pockets it. Meanwhile, the princess is crying in her room, when a fairy godmother appears and turns her into a "purty" girl, with diamonds in her hair and with a beautiful dress. The princess, in new clothes, goes to the balcony under the moonlight. The prince sees her and, falling in love, comes to court her. The princess then leaves. The prince returns later for a second visit and meets the princess again. With the ring in hand, he decides to look for its owner all over the world. Failing that, he then goes back to the girl in the donkey's skin and places her ring on her finger. Finding the ring's owner, the prince and princess marry. Retellings and adaptations Das Himmelskleid (1927), an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin) (1970), a French film directed by Jacques Demy and starring Jean Marais and Catherine Deneuve Donkey Skin (1976), a translation by Angela Carter for The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault The Donkey's Hide (1982), a Soviet film adaptation. Sapsorrow (1988), an episode of Jim Henson's TV series The Storyteller Deerskin (1993), a novel by Robin McKinley Donkeyskin (1995), a short story by Terri Windling Donkeyskin (1995), a poem by Midori Snyder The Tale of the Skin (1997), a short story by Emma Donoghue Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale (2003), a novel by K. A. Laity Unnatural Issue (2011), a novel by Mercedes Lackey The Color Master (2013), a post-modern fairy tale by Aimee Bender detailing the struggle of the dressmakers. Riverbed (2017), a short story by Deirdre Sullivan "Donkeyskin" or "Faith" is a character in Telltale's game series The Wolf Among Us. The Grimm Fairytale All Kinds of Fur can be considered a variant on the tale. See also Allerleirauh The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack References Further reading Goldberg, Christine. "The Donkey Skin Folktale Cycle (AT 510B)". In: The Journal of American Folklore 110, no. 435 (1997): 28-46. doi:10.2307/541584. Harf, Laurence. "Le conte de Peau d'Ane dans la littérature du Moyen Age et du XVIe siècle". In: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance, n°11/1, 1980. La littérature populaire aux XVème et XVIème siècles. Actes du deuxieme colloque de Goutelas (21-23