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youngest son
The youngest son is a stock character in fairy tales, where he features as the hero. He is usually the third son, but sometimes there are more brothers, and sometimes he has only one; usually, they have no sisters.
In a family of many daughters, the youngest daughter may be an equivalent figure.〔Heidi Anne Heiner, "(Annotations for ''East of the Sun & West of the Moon'' )"〕
==Traits==
Prior to his adventures, he is often despised as weak and foolish by his brothers or father, or both — sometimes with reason, some youngest sons actually being foolish, and others being lazy and prone to sitting about the ashes doing nothing.〔Maria Tatar, ''The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales'', p87, ISBN 0-691-06722-8〕 Sometimes, as in ''Esben and the Witch'', they scorn him as small and weak.
Even when not scorned as small and weak, the youngest son is seldom distinguished by great strength, agility, speed, or other physical powers.〔W. H. Auden, "The Quest Hero", Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism, p37 ISBN 0-618-42253-6〕 He may be particularly clever, as in ''Hop o' My Thumb'', or fearless, as in ''The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was'', but more commonly his traits include refusal to abandon the quest, as in ''Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf'' or ''The Brown Bear of the Green Glen'', and courtesy to strangers, especially those who appear weak, as in ''The Water of Life'' or ''The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship''.〔Maria Tatar, ''The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales'', p89, ISBN 0-691-06722-8〕
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