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The Witcher saga, as with Sapkowski's other works, draw heavily from existing folktales and literature. Below are some examples.

Snow White

Aridea quite often turned to Mirror—

With the usual question, I take it, interrupted Geralt. "Who is the fairest of them all?" I know; all Nehelenia's Mirrors are either polite or broken. Template:Witcher citation

Then, four years later I received news form Aridea. She's tracked down the little one, who was living in Mahakam with seven gnomes whom she'd managed to convince it was more profitable to rob merchants on the roads than to pollute their lungs with dust from the mines. She was known as Shrike because she liked to impale the people she caught on a sharp pole while they were still alive. Several times Aridea hired assassins, but none of them returned. Well it then became hard to find anyone to try — Shrike had already become quite famous. Template:Witcher citation

Hansel and Gretel / Baba Yaga

They told me about a black annis who has its hideout somewhere in these woods, a little house on a chicken-claw tripod. Template:Witcher citation

Cinderella

Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper. Template:Witcher citation

Arthurian legend

  • Too numerous to list