The Brothers Grimm's "The Spirit in the glass bottle" is the most prominent example.
Genie in a Bottle: Most often found in Arabian tales, but, due to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, the trope found its way to Europe. Fractured Fairy Tale: What you get when these tropes are parodied. Feminine Women Can Cook: The heroine sometimes has to prove her worth as a bride by doing household chores. Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Run away from the father who wants to marry you? You still have to eat, don't you? Princess or not?. Fake Ultimate Hero: A form of the false hero. Fairy Godmother: Although a Newer Than They Think trope. Fairy Devilmother: Not all immaculate wish-granters are there to give the baby gifts. Powerful magical folk tend to be unambiguously good or evil, with appearances to match. 
The Fair Folk: Despite the name, these rarely appear. Exact Eavesdropping: Talking Animals have a marvelous tendency to talk where the hero can overhear them. Evil Sorcerer: Particularly dangerous when you're apprenticed to him. Evil Old Folks: Witches, stepmothers and evil wizards frequently fall into this category. Earn Your Happy Ending: Some fairy tales require enormous effort for this. Dude, Where's My Respect?: Kings often treat any success as proof that more should be demanded. Dragons Prefer Princesses: Surprisingly rarer than you might think, but it still appears in a few tales. Other times this trope would be in play, but the siblings blow it with some last-minute treachery. Double In-Law Marriage: Sometimes the heroine wins a man for herself and his brothers for her sisters (or the hero wins sibling brides for his brothers). Don't Go in the Woods: Going into the wood triggers the tale. The characters with this trait, notably, tend to be female. Does Not Like Shoes: Just as with Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: despite not being such a usual occurrence in the text quiet often found on illustrations and in adaptations. Distressed Dude: Men need rescuing as often as women, if not more so. Deceased Parents Are the Best: The Missing Mom or Disappeared Dad will have been a saint the living dad and their Wicked Stepmother will be indifferent or actively hostile to the young protagonist. In some stories instead of selling himself the protagonist must perform an Impossible Task to get something valuable and escape the "devil's" clutches. The plot usully takes two routes: the protagonist either realizes (too late) that the whole business wasn't worth it, or embarks on a journey to get back whatever he sold to the devil of the story (soul, shadow, reflection, heart, laugh, child). Deal with the Devil: besides the classic "horns and hooves" devil the deal could be made with evil wizards, witches, or fairies. Deader Than Dead: Common in disposing of the villains. Don't worry, he's helping out of gratitude, since you arranged for his burial. Dead All Along: Sometimes that Knight in Shining Armor or Talking Animal is dead already. Goliath: The youngest or smallest one will turn out to be smarter than his big enemies. Dances and Balls: But be back before midnight! Or show up at it - read your fairy tale carefully to know which one. Damsel in Distress: Women often end up endangered in some form or another, whether or not they're the protagonists. 
The exception is when the father chooses himself as his daughter's husband. A girl who refuses the husband her father chooses for her either faces trials until her pride is broken or misses out on an incredibly good catch. Child Marriage Veto: Almost never portrayed in a good light.Cain and Abel: Older brothers often turn violently on their youngest, successful brother.Bride and Switch: It can be the whole plot, when the heroine is replaced en route to her wedding, or a final complication.Bothering by the Book: An Italian variant of The Maiden in the Tower (like "Rapunzel") has the heroine wittingly letting the prince up - after all, he said the right words, she can use them to justify it.Characters of noble blood can act as the Love Interest of a peasant, like a prince or princess or be the ones who marry up into royalty. Big Fancy Castle: Whether the prince's or the monster's.Be Careful What You Wish For: Especially about your baby.Bears Are Bad News: Invariably dangerous, though frequently good.Baleful Polymorph/ Animorphism: Frequently a curse cast by a Wicked Witch, Wicked Stepmother, or so on.
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