"The Six Swans" (German: "Die sechs Schwäne") is a German fairy tale. It is included in Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), the 1812 anthology of folktales compiled by the Brothers Grimm, and The Yellow Fairy Book, the 1894 anthology of children's stories compiled by the Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. Similar stories exist in the folklore of North Africa, Greece, Russia and other European countries. Hans Christian Andersen drew on similar Scandinavian folktales to write "
