Watch out for variant spellings of names of works, characters, etc.
In MLA and other databases, frequently English-language articles use the orignal language name for a work. Example: Nibelungenlied instead of The Song of the Nibelungs.
Use a * to cut off a word at its stem, e.g. Rumpelstil* will retrieve Rumpelstilzchen or Rumpelstiltskin
Type the word AND (or use the second row) if you want to enter more than one word that is not an exact phrase.
If you can't use a star to search for spelling variants, use OR
(brier or briar) and rose
A truly comprehensive search for this family of works would be
(brier or briar) and rose
or
Dornröschen or "Belle au bois dormant" or "sleeping beauty"
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This link will help you cite sources in MLA:
MLA instructions from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) - 9th ed.
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