sentences:  Folklorist Stith Thompson suggests the tale has a regular occurrence in the Mediterranean Area, distributed along Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal.Italo Calvino included a variant The Love of the Three Pomegranates, an Abruzzese version known too as "As White as Milk, As Red ad Blood" but noted that he could have selected from forty different Italian versions, with a wide array of fruit.It is Aarne-Thompson type 408, and the oldest known variant of this tale.