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This page lists minor stories featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author Mark Twain in 1876.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "Strange Case".
For more details about its plot, see this page.Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Greek writer Aesop.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "A Wondrous Place".
For more details about its plot, see this page.The BFG (Novel)
The BFG is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by British author Roald Dahl in 1982.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "The Girl in the Tower".
For more details about the its plot, see this page.
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- In the series, the BFG is specifically a giant troll, not a giant.
- Alice magically created the troll.
- In the series, Alice says that the troll is "the gentlest of giants".
- A group of villagers want to kill the troll as it had destroyed the villagers' homes.
- Characters Featured
Celtic Mythology
Celtic Mythology is a group of myths featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It consists of the body of myths native to the Celtic peoples.
This story was featured in the Season Five episodes "The Bear King" and "Souls of the Departed".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Ale of Seonaidh can be used to communicate with the spirit of someone who has passed on to the Underworld.
- Items Featured
The Curse of Capistrano
The Curse of Capistrano is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author Johnston McCulley in 1919.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "Leaving Storybrooke".
For more details about its plot, see this page.Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes in 1605 and 1615.
This story was featured in the Season Two episode "We Are Both".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The horse Rocinante was owned by the Evil Queen until she decided to sacrifice him to try to enact the Dark Curse.
- Characters Featured
The Emerald City of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author L. Frank Baum.
This story was featured in the Season Three episode "Kansas".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The Book of Records is used by the witches and has foreseen the fates of Dorothy and Zelena.
- Items Featured
Germanic Mythology
Germanic Mythology is a group of myths featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples.
This story was featured in the Once Upon a Time episode "That Still Small Voice" and the spin-off episodes "Dirty Little Secrets" and "And They Lived...".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Myrna and Martin sell Stephen and Donna fake elf tonic. However, it is not known whether elves actually exist in their world.
- The nix is named Nyx and is the guardian of Well of Wonders. If someone steals water from the well without permission, she curses them into becoming genies, forcing them to spend their lives serving the will of others.
- Characters Featured
- The nix
- Creatures Features
- Elves (mentioned)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a fairytale featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by English writer Robert Southey in 1837.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "Street Rats".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Goldilocks runs a spa in Storybrooke called The Three Bears Day Spa.
- Characters Featured
La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola is an opera featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto written by Jacopo Ferretti. It is an operatic adaptation of the "Cinderella" fairytale and was first performed in 1817.
The storyline was featured in the Season Six episode "The Other Shoe" and the Season Seven episode "A Pirate's Life".
For more details about its plot, see this page.The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by British author J. R. R. Tolkien in stages between 1937 and 1949.
This story was featured in the Season Three episode "The Jolly Roger" and the Season Four episode "The Snow Queen".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The roots of incantations in Regina's spell book are written in Elvish.
- The instructions for the use of the ice magic neutralizing candle are written in Elvish and Belle translates them for Emma.
- Languages Featured
The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author L. Frank Baum in 1904.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "Where Bluebirds Fly".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The Wicked Witch of the North is mentioned as being the one who cursed Stanum.
- Characters Featured
- The Wicked Witch of the North (mentioned)
Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly is a parallel novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American writer Valerie Martin in 1990.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "Strange Case".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Mary is killed by Dr. Jekyll after sleeping with Mr. Hyde.
- Characters Featured
- Locations Featured
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American writer Herman Melville in 1851.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "Knightfall".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Wish Hook meets with Ahab to get a magical item.
- Characters Featured
- Captain Ahab
- First Mate Starbuck (allusion)
- Moby Dick (mentioned)
The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by French author Jules Verne in 1874.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "Dark Waters".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The Mysterious Island is another name for the Land of Untold Stories. Nemo is seeking a magic key which will take him to the Mysterious Island, and is taken there after he is mortally injured.
- Characters Featured
- Locations Featured
- Vehicles Featured
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author L. Frank Baum in 1919.
This story was featured in the Season Four episodes "Heart of Gold" and "Lily" and the Season Five premiere "The Dark Swan".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Robin Hood steals one of the six-leafed clovers from the Wicked Witch of the West. Both of them later use one for transformation.
- Items Featured
Polynesian Mythology
Polynesian Mythology is a group of myths featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was oral stories told by the people of the Polynesian Islands.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episodes "Knightfall" and "Leaving Storybrooke".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Wish Hook seeks Maui's fish hook.
- Characters Featured
- Maui (mentioned)
- Items Featured
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It was written by English author Jane Austen in 1813.
This story was featured in the spin-off episode "Who's Alice".
For more details about its plot, see this page.Rip Van Winkle (Short Story)
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by the American author Washington Irving in 1819.
This story was featured in the Season Four episode "The Apprentice".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- While Emma is driving through Storybrooke, the car radio host takes a request from Rip Van Winkle, who is looking for a classic song to wake up to.
- Rip van Winkle appears in a non-canon[2] deleted scene from "Nasty Habits".
- Characters Featured
- Rip Van Winkle (mentioned)
Roman Mythology
Roman Mythology is a group of myths featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It a set of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.
This story was featured in the Season Five episode "Labor of Love", the Season Six episode "Page 23" and the Season Seven episode "Flower Child".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- In keeping with the Disney film Hercules, Heracles, a character from Greek mythology, is renamed Hercules, after his Roman counterpart. ("Labor of Love")
- The Evil Queen seeks Cupid's arrow, intending to use it to track down Snow White. ("Page 23")
- Flora is reimagined as a tree nymph living in a grove and takes the role of Mother Nature. ("Flower Child")
- Characters Featured
- Items Featured
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is a historical novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "The Other Shoe".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
- Show Adaptation
- Hester comes to Storybrooke from the Land of Untold Stories and appears in Granny's Diner wearing the scarlet "A" on her clothes.
- Characters Featured
- Hester Prynne (allusion)
Slavic Mythology
Slavic Mythology is a group of myths featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It consists of the body of myths native to the Slavic peoples.
This story was featured in Season Four episode "Darkness on the Edge of Town".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The Chernobog is renamed Chernabog and resides on Bald Mountain like in Disney's Fantasia, where it guards the Dark Curse. The creature is based on and takes the name of the Disney version of the character from the 1940 film Fantasia.
- Characters Featured
- Locations Featured
Swan Lake
Swan Lake is an opera featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76 and premiered in 1877.
The storyline was featured in the first half of Season Five.
For more details about its plot, see this page.Three Billy Goats Gruff
"Three Billy Goats Gruff" is a fairytale featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It originates in Norwegian oral folklore and was recorded by Norwegian authors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in 1841.
This story was featured in the Season One episode "Snow Falls", and the Season Three episode "There's No Place Like Home".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
- Show Adaptation
- There is more than one troll, which Snow White and Prince Charming encounter on the bridge.
- Characters Featured
- The troll
- Locations Featured
- The bridge
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is a historical novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by French author Alexandre Dumas in 1844.
This story was featured in the Season Five episode "An Untold Story" and the Season Six episode "A Bitter Draught".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
- Show Adaptation
- The Three Musketeers come to Storybrooke from the Land of Untold Stories.
- Characters Featured
Treasure Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.
This story was featured in the Season Five episode "The Brothers Jones".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
- Show Adaptation
- Trelawney's schooner is reimagined as Captain Silver's ship. Killian and Liam Jones work for Captain Silver on his ship, as indentured slaves.
- Characters Featured
- Captain Silver
- Jim Hawkins (allusion)
- Sailors
- Items Featured
- Treasure
- Treasure map
- Trelawney's schooner
