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Brothers Grimm
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Their first collection of folk tales, Childrens and Household Tales, was published in 1812. The brothers spent their formative years in the German town of Hanau and their fathers death in 1796 caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years after. They both attended the University of Marburg where they developed a curiosity about German folklore, which grew into a dedication to collecting German folk tales. The rise of romanticism during the 19th century revived interest in folk stories. With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, between 1812 and 1857, their first collection was revised and republished many times, growing from 86 stories to more than 200. The popularity of the Grimms best folk tales has endured well, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born on 4 January 1785 and his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm on 24 February 1786. They were the second- and third-eldest surviving siblings in a family of nine children, in 1791, the family moved to the countryside town of Steinau, when Philipp was employed there as district magistrate. The family became prominent members of the community, residing in a home surrounded by fields. Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy in Steinau, the children were educated at home by private tutors, receiving strict instruction as Lutherans that instilled in both a lifelong religious faith. In 1796, Philipp Grimm died of pneumonia, plunging his family into poverty, Dorothea depended on financial support from her father and sister, first lady-in-waiting at the court of William I, Elector of Hesse. Jacob was the eldest living son, and he was forced at age 11 to assume adult responsibilities for the two years. The two boys adhered to the advice of their grandfather, who continually exhorted them to be industrious, the brothers left Steinau and their family in 1798 to attend the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel, which had been arranged and paid for by their aunt. By then, they were without a provider, forcing them to rely entirely on each other. The two brothers differed in temperament, Jacob was introspective and Wilhelm was outgoing, sharing a strong work ethic, they excelled in their studies. In Kassel, they became aware of their inferior social status relative to high-born students who received more attention. Still, each brother graduated at the head of his class, Jacob in 1803, after graduation from the Friedrichsgymnasium, the brothers attended the University of Marburg. The university was small with about 200 students and there they became aware that students of lower social status were not treated equally. They were disqualified from admission because of their standing and had to request dispensation to study law
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Wilhelm Grimm (left) and Jacob Grimm in an 1855 painting by
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in
Steinau from 1791 to 1796.
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Jacob Grimm lecturing (illustration by
Ludwig Emil Grimm, c. 1830)
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The graves of the Brothers Grimm in
Schöneberg, Berlin (St. Matthäus Kirchhof Cemetery)
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Jacob Grimm
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel and his father, Philipp Grimm, was a lawyer, but he died while Jacob was a child, and his mother was left with very small means. His mothers sister was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, Jacob was sent to the public school at Kassel in 1798 with his younger brother Wilhelm. In 1802, he proceeded to the University of Marburg where he studied law and his brother joined him at Marburg a year later, having just recovered from a long and severe illness, and likewise began the study of law. Up to this time, Jacob Grimm had been driven only by a general thirst for knowledge, savignys lectures also awakened in him a love for historical and antiquarian investigation, which forms the structure of all his work. In the beginning of 1805, he received an invitation from Savigny, Grimm passed a very happy time in Paris, strengthening his taste for the literatures of the Middle Ages by his studies in the Paris libraries. Towards the close of the year, he returned to Kassel, where his mother and Wilhelm had settled, the next year, he obtained a position in the war office with the very small salary of 100 thalers. One of his grievances was that he had to exchange his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform, but he had full leisure for the pursuit of his studies. In 1808, soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. Bonaparte appointed him an auditor to the council, while Grimm retained his superintendent post. His salary was increased in a period of time from 2000 to 4000 francs. After the expulsion of Bonaparte and the reinstatement of an elector, Grimm was appointed Secretary of Legation in 1813, accompanying the Hessian minister to the headquarters of the allied army. In 1814, he was sent to Paris to demand restitution of books carried off by the French, upon his return from Vienna, he was sent to Paris a second time to secure book restitutions. Meanwhile, Wilhelm had received an appointment to the Kassel library, consequently, they moved the following year to Göttingen, where Jacob received the appointment of professor and librarian, and Wilhelm that of under-librarian. Jacob Grimm lectured on legal antiquities, historical grammar, literary history, and diplomatics, explained Old German poems, during this period, he is described as small and lively in figure, with a harsh voice, speaking a broad Hessian dialect. Grimm joined other academics who signed a protest against the King of Hanovers abrogation of the constitution which had established some years before. As a result, he was dismissed from his professorship and banished from the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837 and he returned to Kassel with his brother, who had also signed the protest. Jacob was not under any obligation to lecture and he seldom did so, during their time in Kassel, Jacob regularly attended the meetings of the academy, where he read papers on widely varied subjects
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Jacob Grimm
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Wilhelm Grimm
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm was born in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel, in 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common, as students and they always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common. In 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacists daughter Henriette Dorothea Wild, wilhelms marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers. Richard Cleasby visited the brothers and observed, “they both live in the house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property. ”Wilhelm and Henriette had four children together, Jacob, Herman Friedrich, Rudolf Georg. Wilhelms character was a complete contrast to that of his brother, as a boy, he was strong and healthy, but while growing up he suffered a long and severe illness which left him weak the rest of his life. He had a comprehensive and energetic mind than his brother. He utilized everything that bore directly on his own studies and ignored the rest and these studies were almost always of a literary nature. Wilhelm took great delight in music, for which his brother had but a moderate liking, Cleasby relates that “Wilhelm read a sort of farce written in the Frankfort dialect, depicting the ‘malheurs’ of a rich Frankfort tradesman on a holiday jaunt on Sunday. It was very droll, and he read it admirably. ”Cleasby describes him as “an uncommonly animated, jovial fellow. ”He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother. A collection of tales was first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers. From 1837-1841, the Grimm brothers joined five of their professors at the University of Göttingen to form a group known as the Göttinger Sieben. They protested against Ernst August, King of Hanover, whom they accused of violating the constitution, all seven were fired by the king. Wilhelm Grimm died in Berlin of an infection at the age of 73
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Grimm's tomb in Berlin
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Wilhelm Grimm
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The Frog Prince
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The Frog Prince, or, Iron Henry is a fairy tale, best known through the Brothers Grimms written version, traditionally it is the first story in their collection. The 2009 Disney film, The Princess and the Frog, is based on this story. In the tale, a spoiled princess reluctantly befriends the Frog Prince, in other early versions it was sufficient for the frog to spend the night on the princess pillow. A Russian folk version Tsarevna Lyagushka has the male and female roles reversed, the male prince Ivan Tsarevich discovers the female frog who becomes Vasilisa the Wise. Other folktales similar to the Frog Prince are, The Frog Prince, the first English translation of the above tale. Edgar Taylor, the translator, not only changed the title, the Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well. The Well of the Worlds End The Paddo, the Kind Stepdaughter and the Frog. A popular phrase related to story is, You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince. It is used to encourage those who seek true love, heiner states that it is unclear when this element was added to the story. Maria Tatars The Annotated Brothers Grimm merely attributes it to modern versions of the story, also, the Frog Prince is the true identity of King Harold in the films Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third. The Frog, directed by Segundo de Chomón, is the first film adaptation of The Frog Prince, stevie Smiths poem The Frog Prince suggests the thoughts of the prince as he waits for disenchantment. Anne Sexton wrote an adaptation as a poem called The Frog Prince in her collection Transformations, a book in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimms fairy tales. The Tale of the Frog Prince was the first story presented by Shelley Duvalls Faerie Tale Theatre in 1982, with Robin Williams as the witty Frog Prince, the Frog Prince is a 1986 film starring John Paragon and Aileen Quinn. The Frog Prince was one of the fairy tales featured in Grimms Fairy Tale Classics in its Grimm Masterpiece Theater season, in this version, the title character was transformed into a frog for lying to a witch and breaking his promise. He is voiced by Jeff Bennett while the princess is voiced by Paige OHara, a chamber opera for children based upon The Frog Prince, written by Jacob A. Greenberg for Brown Opera Productions and the Providence Athenaeum, was performed in 2008. The Princess and the Frog, a 2009 Disney animated film, is based on the 2002 novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker. The film starred Anika Noni Rose and Bruno Campos and was directed by Ron Clements, the Frog Prince story itself is mentioned several times in the film, being read to Tiana as a child and inspiring Prince Naveen to suggest Tiana kiss him to break his spell. However, as she is dressed as a princess for Mardi Gras
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The frog asks to be allowed to come into the castle - Illustration for "The Frog Prince" by
Walter Crane 1874
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The Frog Prince by
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1889)
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Arthur Rackham 's illustration to the fairy tale of the
Brothers Grimm The Frog Prince
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The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
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The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 5. A mother goat leaves her seven children at home while she ventures into the forest to find food, before she leaves, she warns her young about the Big Bad Wolf who will try to sneak into the house and gobble them up. The wolf will pretend to be their mother and convince the kids to open the door, the young children will be able to recognize their true mother by her white feet and sweet voice. The mother goat leaves and the seven kids stay in the house, before long, they hear a voice at the door that says Let me in children, your mother has something for each and every one of you. His gruff voice betrays him and the kids do not let him in, the wolf goes to a market and steals some honey to soften his voice. A little while later, the kids hear another voice at the door, Let me in children, your mother has something for each and this time the voice is high and sweet like their mothers. They are about to let him in when the youngest kid looks under the crack in the door and notices the wolfs big and they refuse to open the door, and the wolf goes away again. The wolf goes to the bakery and steals some flour, smearing it all over his coat and he returns to the childrens house, and says Let me in children, your mother has something for each and every one of you. The kids see his feet and hear his sweet voice. The wolf jumps into the house and gobbles up six of the kids, the youngest child hides from the wolf in the grandfather clock and does not get eaten. Later that day, the mother returns home from the forest. She is distraught to find the wide open and all. She looks around and sees the wolf, fast asleep under a tree and he had eaten so much, he could not move. The mother goat calls to her youngest child to quickly get her a pair of scissors and she cuts open the wolfs belly and the six children spring out miraculously unharmed. They fill the belly with rocks, and the mother sews it back up again. When the wolf wakes up, he is very thirsty and he goes to the river to drink, but falls in and drowns under the weight of the rocks. The Family lived happily ever after, in one of Richard Scarrys versions of the story, the wolf was supposed to eat the kids when he gets into their house. Instead, he puts them into a sack and tries to take it back to his cave
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Illustration by
Hermann Vogel
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Brother and Sister
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Tired of the cruel mistreatment they endure from their wicked stepmother, who is also a witch, a brother and sister run away from home one day. They wander off into the countryside and spend the night in the woods, by morning the boy is thirsty, and so the children go looking for a spring of clear water. But their stepmother has already discovered their escape, and has bewitched all the springs in the forest, the boy is about to drink from one, when his sister hears how its rushing sound says Whoever drinks from me will become a tiger. Desperately, the girl begs her not to drink from the spring, lest he transform into a tiger. So they continue on their way, but when they come to the spring the girl hears it say. Again, she tries to prevent her brother from drinking from it. Reluctantly, he agrees to her pleas but insists he drink from the next spring they encounter. And so they arrive at the spring, and the girl overhears the rushing water cry. But it is too late, because her brother has already drunk from it, as the initial feeling of despair clears up, the children decide to stay and live in the woods forever. The girl would take care of her brother, and ties her gold chain around his neck, upon seeing the beautiful girl, he immediately asks her to marry him and she accepts. Thus she became queen and they all live happily in the kings castle, time passes and the queen gives birth to a son. Their stepmother, however, soon discovers that they are still alive, one night, she kills the queen and replaces her with her own disfigured daughter, whom she has transformed to resemble her. When the queens ghost secretly visits her babys bedside for three nights, the king catches on and her stepmothers evil plan is exposed. The queen comes back to life and her stepfamily are tried for their crimes, the daughter is banished into the woods, where she is torn to pieces by wild animals and her mother is burned at the stake. At the exact moment of her death the boy becomes human again and they all live happily ever after. The first recorded appearance of Brother and Sister is in Giambattista Basiles Pentamerone around the 17th century and it was written down as the tale of Ninnillo and Nennella. Since then it has circulated in a number of European countries under varying titles, in Russia the story was more commonly known as Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka, and collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. In the Aarne–Thompson classification system of fairy tales, Brother and Sister is categorized as its own type as number 450, another of this type is The Lambkin and the Little Fish
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Sister Alenushka Weeping about Brother Ivanushka (painting by
Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881), Russian variant collected by
Alexander Afanasyev in
Narodnye russkie skazki.
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Sculpture "Brother and Sister", created in 1970 by
Katharina Szelinski-Singer
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Rapunzel
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Rapunzel is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Childrens and Household Tales. The Grimm Brothers story is an adaptation of the fairy tale Rapunzel by Friedrich Schulz published in 1790 and its plot has been used and parodied in various media and its best known line is an idiom of popular culture. In volume I of the 1812 annotations, it is listed as coming from Friedrich Schulz Kleine Romane, Book 5, pp. 269–288, in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales it is type 310, The Maiden in The Tower. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book, other versions of the tale also appear in A Book of Witches by Ruth Manning-Sanders and in Paul O. Zelinskys 1997 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, Rapunzel and the Disney movie Tangled. Rapunzels story has striking similarities to the 11th-century Persian tale of Rudāba, Rudāba offers to let down her hair from her tower so that her lover Zāl can climb up to her. Some elements of the tale might also have originally been based upon the tale of Saint Barbara. A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant, growing in the garden and longs for it. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to get some salad for her and she makes a salad out of it and greedily eats it. It tastes so good that she longs for more, so her husband goes to get some for her a second time. As he scales the wall to home, Dame Gothel catches him. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, when the baby girl is born, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with golden hair. When she reaches her twelfth year, Dame Gothel shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. When she visits her, she stands beneath the tower and calls out, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, one day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower. He returns often, listening to her singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down, when she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually asks her to marry him
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Illustration for the Brothers Grimm fairy tale
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Illustration by
Johnny Gruelle
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Rapunzel –
Dresden in
Saxony, Germany.
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Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel and Gretel is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake. The two children save their lives by outwitting her, the tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck. Under the Aarne–Thompson classification system, Hansel and Gretel is classified under Class 327, Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally, and reluctantly, submits to his wifes scheme and they are unaware that in the childrens bedroom, Hansel and Gretel have overheard them. After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many white pebbles as he can, then returns to his room, the next day, the family walk deep into the woods and Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles. After their parents abandon them, the wait for the moon to rise. They return home safely, much to their stepmothers rage, once again provisions become scarce and the stepmother angrily orders her husband to take the children further into the woods and leave them there to die. Hansel and Gretel attempt to gather more pebbles, but find the doors locked, the following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of crumbs for them to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, they find that the birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods. After days of wandering, they follow a white bird to a clearing in the woods. Hungry and tired, the begin to eat the rooftop of the house, when the door opens. They do this without knowing the fact that their hostess is a bloodthirsty Hag who waylays children to cook, the next morning, the hag locks Hansel in an iron cage in the garden and forces Gretel into becoming a slave. The hag feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up, but Hansel cleverly offers a bone he found in the cage, due to her blindness, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is still too thin to eat. After weeks of this, the hag grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel and she prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel, too. She coaxes Gretel to the oven and prods her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the hags intent, pretends she does not understand what she means, Gretel frees Hansel from the cage and the pair discover a vase full of treasure and precious stones
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Illustration by
Arthur Rackham, 1909
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Illustration by
Ludwig Richter, 1842
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Illustration by
Theodor Hosemann
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The Fisherman and His Wife
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The Fisherman and His Wife is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no.19. It is Aarne–Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife and its theme was used in The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. Virginia Woolf has her character Mrs. Ramsey in To the Lighthouse read a version of the story to her son, James. Günter Grasss 1977 novel, The Flounder, is based on the fairy tale, as are Emanuele Luzzatis version, Punch and the Magic Fish. It may be classified as an anti-fairy tale, there once was a poor fisherman who lived with his wife in a hovel by the sea. One day the fisherman catches a golden flounder, which claims to be an enchanted prince, and begs him to set it free. When his wife hears the story, she says he ought to have had the flounder grant him a wish, the fisherman returns to the shore but is uneasy when he finds that the sea seems to becoming turbid, as it was so clear before. He makes up a rhyme to summon the flounder, and it grants the wifes wish, the fisherman is pleased with his new wealth, but the wife is not and demands more, and demands that her husband go back and wish that he be made a king. Reluctantly, he does, and gets his wish, but again and again, his wife sends him back to ask for more and more. The fisherman knows this is wrong but there is no reasoning with his wife and he says they should not annoy the flounder, and be content with what they have been given, but his wife is not content. Each time, the grants the wishes, but each time the sea grows more and more fierce. Eventually, the wife goes too far when she wishes to command the sun, moon and heavens, when that final wish is made, the flounder undoes all the wishes, and returns the fisherman and his wife to their hovel. And with that, the sea becomes calm once more, the Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish by Alexander Pushkin is based on this tale. In 1977 the German writer Günter Grass published the novel, The Flounder, a short cartoon based on this story was part of the United States animated television series, Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Flounder was replaced by a mermaid who grants the wishes in exchange for her freedom. Additionally, the wife goes directly from queen to wishing to be a goddess, the mermaid points out to the fisherman that all his wishes have been for his wife, and asks him what he desires. The fisherman replies that he just wants his wife to be happy, as in the later 1997 version, the fisherman and his wife are reduced to living in their hovel, but the wife is happy that it is poor yet neat. In 1997, the story was given a Spanish-flavored adaptation on the cable series, Happily Ever After
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"The Fisherman and His Wife" illustration by
Alexander Zick.
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The Brave Little Tailor
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The Brave Little Tailor or The Valiant Little Tailor or The Gallant Tailor is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 20. Joseph Jacobs collected another variant A Dozen at One Blow in European Folk, andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. Another of many versions of the tale appears in A Book of Giants by Ruth Manning-Sanders, in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther system of classifying folktales, it is type 1640, with elements of several other story types. A tailor is preparing to eat some jam, but when flies settle on it and he makes a belt describing the deed, reading Seven at One Blow. Inspired, he sets out into the world to seek his fortune, the tailor meets a giant who assumes that Seven at One Blow refers to seven men. When the giant squeezes water from a boulder, the tailor squeezes milk, or whey, the giant throws a rock far into the air, and it eventually lands. The tailor counters the feat by tossing a bird flies away into the sky. Later, the giant asks the tailor to help him carry a tree, the tailor directs the giant to carry the trunk, while the tailor will carry the branches. Instead, the climbs on, so the giant carries him as well. Impressed, the giant brings the tailor to the giants home, during the night, the giant attempts to kill the tailor by bashing the bed. However, the tailor, having found the bed too large, had slept in the corner, upon returning and seeing the tailor alive, the other giants flee in fear of the small man. The tailor enters the service, but the other soldiers are afraid that he will lose his temper someday. They tell the king that either the tailor leaves military service or they will, the king, surprised the tailor has succeeded, balks on his promise, and requires more of the tailor before he may claim his rewards. The king subsequently sends him after a boar, but the tailor traps it in a chapel with a similar luring technique. Duly impressed, the king relents, marries the tailor to the princess, the tailors new wife hears him talking in his sleep and realizes with fury that he was merely a tailor and not a noble hero. Upon the princesss demands, the promises to have him killed or carried off. A squire warns the tailor, who pretends to be asleep, terrified, they leave, and the king does not try to assassinate the tailor again. The tailor lives out his days as a king in his own right, Tailor – this character is clever, intelligent, and confident
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The
tailor provokes the
giants. Illustration by
Alexander Zick
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Cinderella
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Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world, the title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances, that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The oldest documented version comes from China, and the oldest European version from Italy, the most popular version was first published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697, and later by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms Fairy Tales. Although the storys title and main characters change in different languages. The word Cinderella has, by analogy, come to one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity. The still-popular story of Cinderella continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, the Aarne–Thompson system classifies Cinderella as the persecuted heroine. The story of Rhodopis, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is considered the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story, a version of the story, Ye Xian, appeared in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang by Duan Chengshi around 860. Here, the hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the rebirth of her mother, the fish is later killed by her stepmother and sister. Ye Xian saves the bones, which are magic, and they help her dress appropriately for the New Year Festival, when she loses her slipper after being recognized by her stepfamily, the king finds her slipper and falls in love with her. The Indonesian and Malaysian story Bawang Merah Bawang Putih, are two girls named Bawang Putih and Bawang Merah. While the two countrys respective versions differ in the relationship of the girls and the identity of the protagonist. Both have a fish as the fairy godmother to her daughter. The heroine then finds the bones and buries them, and over the grave a magical swing appears, the protagonist sits on the swing and sings to make it sway, her song reaching the ears of a passing Prince. The swing is akin to the slipper test, which distinguishes the heroine from her sister. In Indonesia, Bawang Putih is the girl, who suffers at the hands of her evil stepmother and stepsister, Bawang Merah. When the Prince enquires after the singer on the swing, Bawang Merah lies, the angry prince forces Bawang Merah and her mother to tell the truth. They then admit that there is another daughter in the house, Bawang Putih comes out and moves the magical swing by her singing. In the end, she and her prince marry and live happily ever after, in the Malaysian version, it is Bawang Merah and her mother Mak Labu who are good, while her half sister Bawang Putih and her mother Mak Kundur are evil
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by
Anne Anderson
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Oliver Herford illustrated Cinderella with the Fairy Godmother, inspired by Perrault's version.
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Charles Robinson illustrated Cinderella in the kitchen (1900), from "Tales of Passed Times" with stories by Charles Perrault.
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Alexander Zick illustrated Cinderella with the doves, inspired by the Grimms' version.
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Little Red Riding Hood
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Little Red Riding Hood, or Little Red Ridinghood, also known as Little Red Cap or simply Red Riding Hood, is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern adaptations. It is number 333 in the Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktales, variations of the story have developed, incorporating various cultural beliefs and regional dialects into the story. An example of this is Kawonis Journey Across the Mountain, A Cherokee Little Red Riding Hood, another such example is Petite Rouge Riding Hood, which approaches the story from a Cajun perspective. The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, in Grimms and Perraults versions of the tale, she is named after the red hooded cape/cloak that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother, in the Grimms version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path. A Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket and he secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, and she tells him where she is going. He suggests that the girl pick some flowers, which she does, in the meantime, he goes to the grandmothers house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. He swallows the whole and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange, Little Red then says, What a deep voice you have. Goodness, what big eyes you have, and what big hands you have. And lastly, What a big mouth you have, at point the wolf jumps out of bed. In Charles Perraults version of the story, the tale ends here, Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed. They then fill the body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and tries to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and it also warns about the dangers of not obeying ones mother. A very similar story also belongs to the North African tradition, namely in Kabylia, where a number of versions are attested. The theme also appears in the story of the life of Saint Margaret, wherein the saint emerges unharmed from the belly of a dragon and they were eventually set free, unharmed, by Zeus, when he gave Cronus an emetic
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Little Red Riding Hood (1881) by
Carl Larsson
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Little Red Riding Hood, illustrated in a 1927 story anthology
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"Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by
Arthur Rackham.
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"The better to see you with": woodcut by
Walter Crane
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Town Musicians of Bremen
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The Town Musicians of Bremen is a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Despite the title of the tale, the characters never arrive in Bremen. In Aarne–Thompson classification it is a tale of type 130. In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, one by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners, on the way to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage, they look inside and see four robbers enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Standing on each others backs, they decide to scare the robbers away by making a din, the animals take possession of the house, eat a good meal, and settle in for the evening. Later that night, the return and send one of their members in to investigate. He sees the Cats eyes shining in the darkness and the robber thinks he is seeing the coals of the fire and he reaches over to light his candle. The robbers abandon the cottage to the creatures who have taken it. An alternate version involves the animals master being deprived of his livelihood and having to send his animals away, after the animals dispatch the thieves, they take the ill-gotten gains back to their master so he can rebuild. Other versions involve at least one wild, non-livestock animal, such as a lizard, the tale has been retold through animated pictures, motion pictures, theatre plays and operas. Composer Richard Mohaupt created the opera Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, which premiered in Bremen 1949, the tale was adapted in humorous fashion for the British childrens series Wolves, Witches and Giants narrated by Spike Milligan, but with the action taking place in Brum rather than Bremen. In the Soviet Union, the story was adapted into an animated musical in 1969 by Yuri Entin and Vasily Livanov at the studio Soyuzmultfilm. It was followed by a sequel called On the Trail of the Town Musicians of Bremen, in 2000, a second 56-minute sequel was made, called The New Bremen Musicians. The musical play was called Os Saltimbancos, was released as an album. This version was made into a movie. In Spain, the story was made into a feature film, Los Trotamúsicos in 1989. This in itself inspired the Spanish animated series Los Trotamúsicos, unlike in the original story, they arrive to Bremen, before going back to live in the robbers house
Town Musicians of Bremen
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A bronze statue by
Gerhard Marcks depicting the Bremen Town Musicians located in
Bremen, Germany. The statue was erected in 1953. Note the front hooves that have become shiny. Touching the front hooves is said to make wishes come true.
Town Musicians of Bremen
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Town Musicians of Bremen, 1969
Soviet animated film
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Persiflage by Heinrich-Otto Pieper
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Snow White
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Snow White is a nineteenth-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms Fairy Tales and it was titled in German, Sneewittchen and numbered as Tale 53. The name Sneewittchen was Low German and in the first version it was translated with Schneeweißchen, the Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. The fairy tale features such elements as the mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the evil queen. The seven dwarfs were first given names in the 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and then given different names in Walt Disneys 1937 film Snow White. The Grimm story, which is referred to as Snow White, should not be confused with the story of Snow White and Rose Red. In the Aarne–Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, others of this kind include Bella Venezia, Myrsina, Nourie Hadig, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, The Young Slave and La petite Toute-Belle. Then, she says to herself, How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, some time later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but dies shortly thereafter. A year later, Snow Whites father, the king, takes a new wife, who is very beautiful, the new queen possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land. The mirror always replies, My queen, you are the fairest in the land, the queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies. But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful day and even more beautiful than the queen. But Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you and this gives the queen a great shock. She becomes envious, and from that moment on, her heart turns against Snow White, eventually, the angry queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the deepest woods to be killed. As proof that Snow White is dead, the demands that he returns with her lungs. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, after raising his knife, he finds himself unable to kill her and he spares her life. Snow White is told that her stepmother wants her dead and to get far away from the kingdom as possible and he instead brings the queen the heart of a wild animal. After wandering through the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to a group of seven dwarfs, since no one is at home, she eats some of the tiny meals, drinks some of their wine, and then tests all the beds. Finally, the last bed is comfortable enough for her and she falls asleep, when the dwarfs return home, they immediately become aware that someone snuck in secretly, because everything in their home is in disorder
Snow White
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Schneewittchen by
Alexander Zick
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The Queen asks the magic mirror
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Rumpelstiltskin
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Rumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale popularly associated with Germany. The tale was one collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Childrens, according to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the story originated around 4,000 years ago. In order to make himself appear superior, a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a room filled with straw and a spinning wheel. When she has given up all hope, an imp-like creature appears in the room, when next morning the king takes the girl to a larger room filled with straw to repeat the feat, the imp spins in return for the girls ring. He extracts from her a promise that she give him her firstborn child. The king keeps his promise to marry the millers daughter, but when their first child is born, the imp returns to claim his payment, Now give me what you promised. She offers him all the wealth she has to keep the child and he finally consents to give up his claim to the child if she can guess his name within three days. Her many guesses fail, but before the night, she wanders into the woods searching for him and comes across his remote mountain cottage and watches, unseen, as he hops about his fire. In his songs lyrics, tonight tonight, my plans I make, tomorrow tomorrow, the queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name, he reveals his name. Some versions have the imp limiting the number of daily guesses to three and hence the number of guesses allowed to a maximum of nine. When the imp comes to the queen on the day, after first feigning ignorance, she reveals his name, Rumpelstiltskin. In the 1812 edition of the Brothers Grimm tales, Rumpelstiltskin then ran away angrily, Other versions have Rumpelstiltskin driving his right foot so far into the ground that he creates a chasm and falls into it, never to be seen again. In the oral version originally collected by the Brothers Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin flies out of the window on a cooking ladle, all these tales are Aarne–Thompson type 500, The Name of the Helper. Another of the Grimms tales revolves about a girl trapped by false claims about her spinning abilities, however, the three women who assist that girl do not demand her firstborn, but instead ask that she invite them to her wedding and say that they are relatives of hers. She complies, and when the three appear at the wedding, amazing the king with their ugliness, they tell the king that their various deformities are the result of their years of spinning, the horrified king decrees that the bride will spin no more. In contrast to Rumpelstiltskins self-seeking, therefore, these helpers ask only the payment of extending their benevolence to the heroine, and ensure that she will not need their help again. In one Italian variant, the girl must discover their names, as with Rumpelstiltskin, but not for the reason, she must use their names to invite them
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Andrew Lang 's The Blue Fairy Book, (1889)
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Cover of
Classics Illustrated Junior issue 512
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Sleeping Beauty
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Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the originally literary tale published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. This in turn was based on Sun, Moon, and Talia by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, the earliest known version of the story is found in the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344 and first printed in 1528. At the christening of a king and queens long-wished-for child, seven good fairies are invited to be godmothers to the infant princess, the fairies attend the banquet at the palace. Each fairy is presented with a plate and drinking cups adorned with jewels. Soon after, an old fairy enters the palace and is seated with a plate of fine china and this old fairy is overlooked because she has been within a tower for many years and everyone had believed her to be deceased. Six of the seven fairies then offer their gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song. The evil fairy is very angry about having been forgotten, and as her gift, enchants the infant princess so that she one day prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel. The seventh fairy, who hasnt yet given her gift, attempts to reverse the evil fairys curse, however, she can only do so partially. Instead of dying, the Princess will fall into a deep sleep for 100 years, the King orders that every spindle and spinning wheel in the kingdom to be destroyed, to try to save his daughter from the terrible curse. Fifteen or sixteen years pass and one day, when the king and queen are away, the princess, who has never seen anyone spin before, asks the old woman if she can try the spinning wheel. The curse is fulfilled as the princess pricks her finger on the spindle, the old woman cries for help and attempts are made to revive the princess. The king attributes this to fate and has the Princess carried to the finest room in the palace and placed upon a bed of gold, the king and queen kiss their daughter goodbye and depart, proclaiming the entrance to be forbidden. The good fairy who altered the evil prophecy is summoned, having great powers of foresight, the fairy sees that the Princess will awaken to distress when she finds herself alone, so the fairy puts everyone in the castle to sleep. The fairy also summons a forest of trees, brambles and thorns that spring up around the castle, shielding it from the outside world, a hundred years pass and a prince from another family spies the hidden castle during a hunting expedition. The prince then braves the tall trees, brambles and thorns which part at his approach and he passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the Princess lies asleep on the bed. Struck by the radiant beauty before him, he falls on his knees before her, the enchantment comes to an end by a kiss and the princess awakens and converses with the prince for a long time. Meanwhile, the rest of the castle awakens and go about their business, the prince and princess are later married by the chaplain in the castle chapel
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"Sleeping Beauty", by
Henry Meynell Rheam
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Sleeping Beauty is shown a
spindle by the old woman. "Sleeping Beauty", by
Alexander Zick (1845–1907)
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An older image of the sleeping princess:
Brünnhilde, surrounded by magical fire rather than roses (illustration by
Arthur Rackham to
Richard Wagner 's
Die Walküre
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Illustration to Tennyson's 1830 poem,
Sleeping Beauty
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 American film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The latter was the producer and also in charge of the stop motion animation, the film was one of the highest-grossing films of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards, several prominent actors — including Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Böhm, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett — are in the film. It was filmed in the Cinerama process, which was photographed in an arc with three lenses, on a camera that produced three strips of film. Three projectors, in the back and sides of the theatre, the story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob, and is biographical and fantastical at the same time. They are working to finish a history for a local Duke, though Wilhelm is more interested in collecting fairy tales, tales such as The Dancing Princess and The Cobbler and the Elves are integrated into the main plot. One of the tales is told as an experiment to three children in a store to see if publishing a collection of fairytales has any merit. Another tale, The Singing Bone, is told by an old woman in the forest who tells stories to children, the culmination of this tale involves a jeweled dragon and features the most involved usage of the films special effects. They are required to pay their rent, which was waived while they worked, as a result of wading through a stream in an effort to retrieve the manuscript, Wilhelm becomes critically ill with potentially fatal pneumonia. He dreams that at night various fairytale characters come to him, in the dream, Russ Tamblyn reprises his role as Tom Thumb from the 1958 film. His fever breaks and Wilhelm recovers completely, continuing his own work while his brother publishes regular books including a history of German grammar, Jacob, shaken by his brothers experience, begins to collaborate on the fairy tales with Wilhelm. They are ultimately invited to receive honorary membership at the Berlin Royal Academy, Jacob prepares to make a speech deliberately insulting the Academy for snubbing Wilhelm. As their train pulls into the station, hordes of children arrive, chanting, Wilhelm begins, Once upon a time, there were two brothers. The children cheer, and the ends with a caption card that reads …and they lived happily ever after. Von Dittersdorf The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm grossed $8,920,615 at the box office and it was the 14th highest-grossing film of 1962. Vogel Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment - Leigh Harline The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm was produced and exhibited in the original 3-panel Cinerama widescreen process. It was the first Cinerama feature that attempted to tell a story, unlike previous productions. It was followed a few months later by a second film, How the West Was Won
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Souvenir program cover
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The Brothers Grimm (film)
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The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 adventure fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam. However, the brothers encounter a genuine fairy tale curse which requires real courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms. Supporting characters are played by Peter Stormare, Jonathan Pryce, in February 2001, Ehren Kruger sold his spec script to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. With Gilliams hiring as director, the script was rewritten by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, MGM eventually dropped out as distributor, but decided to co-finance The Brothers Grimm with Dimension Films and Summit Entertainment, while Dimension took over distribution duties. The film was entirely in the Czech Republic. Gilliam often had on-set tensions with brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the Brothers Grimm was finally released on 26 August 2005 with mixed reviews and a $105.3 million box office performance. This also marks Terry Gilliams first film to receive a PG-13 rating by the MPAA, wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm arrive in French-occupied Germany during the early 1800s. They go to Karlstadt to rid the town of a witchs ghost, after killing the ghost, it is revealed that the Brothers Grimm have actually set up a fake witch to trick the town. Afterwards, as they are celebrating, Italian torturer Mercurio Cavaldi takes them to the French General Delatombe, Delatombe forces them to solve a mystery, The girls of the small village of Marbaden are disappearing, and the villagers are convinced that supernatural beings are responsible. Long ago, King Childeric I came to the forest to build a city while the Queen experimented with black magic to gain eternal life, a plague swept through the land, and she hid in her tower, while her husband and everyone below her perished. Her spell granted her immortal life, but not the youth and her youthful appearance now only exists in her mirror, the source of her life, as an illusion and nothing more. She needs to drink the blood of young girls to regain her beauty. The Queen is working an enchantment to regain her beauty with the aid of her werewolf huntsman and his axe, crow familiars. The Grimms, with the help of Cavaldi and Angelika, a knowing huntress from the village, after another girl goes missing, Cavaldi takes the Grimms and Angelika back to Delatombe. Because they have failed, Cavaldi is ordered to kill both the Grimms, but, after convincing Delatombe that the magic in the forest is actually caused by German rebels, while Cavaldi stays behind with Angelika in the village, the brothers attempt to get into the tower. Jake succeeds and discovers the Queen and the power of her mirror, meanwhile, another girl, named Sasha, is captured despite Angelika and Cavaldis efforts to save her. Jake rides into the forest alone after a spat with Will, after mistaking a dummy that is smashed into the tower for Jake, Will realizes that Jake needs him to believe in him and assists Jake in climbing up the tower. On the roof of the tower, Jake notices twelve crypts in which the twelve victims must lie, when Sashas body comes up from a well, the werewolf takes her to a tomb
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Theatrical release poster
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The Sisters Grimm
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The Sisters Grimm is a childrens fantasy series written by Michael Buckley and illustrated by Peter Ferguson. They have been treated as maids, servants, and other things that shouldnt be. Theyve even been abused and ignored and this is mostly because they have a harsh and uncaring caseworker, Ms. Minerva Smirt, who is supposed to help find a safe new home for them. After all of their trouble, they end up in the care of their long-lost and they soon find that they are living in a town of Everafters, live characters from fantasy and fairy tales. Their family business is working as detectives, who solve mysteries that might be connected to the disappearance of their parents and this barrier stops the Everafters in Ferryport Landing from leaving. The only way to destroy the barrier is if all the Grimms leave the town or if they all die. The Fairy-tale Detectives - The Fairy Tale Detectives introduces us to two orphaned sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, who are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. Grandmother Grimm lives in a town in New York State, known for its extraordinary number of unexplained. As soon as the sisters arrive, they begin to unravel a mystery that leads to their ancestors’ magical beginnings. Sabrina and Daphne learn they are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, who were actually detectives of the magical phenomenon perpetrated by the Everafters and they soon discover it is the Grimm family’s legacy to keep the Everafters in line and the two sisters are the sole heirs to this challenge. In this first book in the series, the girls are pitted against giants, the Unusual Suspects - The Sisters Grimm start school at Ferryport Landing Elementary. Daphne gets Snow White for a teacher, while Sabrinas stuck with Mr. Grumpner, when Mr. Grumpner is murdered in a particularly unusual way, it is up to the Grimms to find the Everafter who did it. A great friend turns into an enemy, and when the school is blown up by Rumpelstiltskin. The Problem Child - The Sisters Grimm face their parents’ kidnappers, One of them turns out to be Little Red Riding Hood, and the other, the Jabberwocky, an unstoppable killing machine. The girls have little hope of rescuing their mother and father until their long-lost Uncle Jake returns home with stories of a weapon, now missing, Sabrina, given a wand by Uncle Jake, gets a magic addiction. Only the Blue Fairy can put the pieces of the Vorpal Blade together, and who is the Blue Fairy anyway. Mayor Charming, for once, has competition for the election by the Queen of Hearts. Pucks wings are ripped off in a Jabberwocky attack at a diner, once Upon a Crime - Sabrina just wants to be normal - no detecting, no dangerous escapes, and especially no Everafters
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The Sisters Grimm
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Fairy tale
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Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term is used for stories with origins in European tradition and, at least in recent centuries. In less technical contexts, the term is used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness. Colloquially, a tale or fairy story can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale, it is used especially of any story that not only is not true. Legends are perceived as real, fairy tales may merge into legends, Fairy tales are found in oral and in literary form, the name fairy tale was first ascribed to them by Madame dAulnoy in the late 17th century. Many of todays fairy tales have evolved from stories that have appeared, with variations. The history of the tale is particularly difficult to trace because only the literary forms can survive. Still, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, such stories may date back thousands of years, Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today. Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways, the Aarne-Thompson classification system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp are among the most notable. Other folklorists have interpreted the significance, but no school has been definitively established for the meaning of the tales. It moves in a world without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with the marvelous. In this never-never land, humble heroes kill adversaries, succeed to kingdoms, a fairy tale with a tragic rather than a happy end is called an anti-fairy tale. Although the fairy tale is a genre within the larger category of folktale. The term itself comes from the translation of Madame DAulnoys conte de fées, Vladimir Propp, in his Morphology of the Folktale, criticized the common distinction between fairy tales and animal tales on the grounds that many tales contained both fantastic elements and animals. Were I asked, what is a fairytale, I should reply, Read Undine, that is a fairytale. of all fairytales I know, I think Undine the most beautiful. As Stith Thompson points out, talking animals and the presence of magic seem to be common to the fairy tale than fairies themselves. However, the presence of animals that talk does not make a tale a fairy tale, especially when the animal is clearly a mask on a human face. Steven Swann Jones identified the presence of magic as the feature by which fairy tales can be distinguished from other sorts of folktales, davidson and Chaudri identify transformation as the key feature of the genre
Fairy tale
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1865 illustration of
Tom Thumb and the
Giant
Fairy tale
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From
The Facetious Nights of Straparola by
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Fairy tale
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A picture by
Gustave Doré of
Mother Goose reading written (literary) fairy tales
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Ivan Bilibin 's illustration of the Russian fairy tale about
Vasilisa the Beautiful
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German Fairy Tale Route
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The German Fairy Tale Route is a tourist attraction in Germany originally established in 1975. With a length of 600 kilometres, the runs from Hanau in central Germany to Bremen in the north. The towns and cities associated with the Grimm brothers and located along the route are Hanau, Steinau, Marburg, the original Children’s and Household Tales, edited and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1812 and known today as Grimm’s Fairy Tales, can be found in Kassel. In 2005, this collection was added to the UNESCO World Document Heritage List, several places along the Fairy Tale Route are connected with the fairy tales themselves. According to legend, the hill Hoher Meissner is where Mother Hulda is said to have resided, Sababurg Castle, numerous picturesque medieval towns can be found among the Routes attractions as well. In 1975, the Council of Europe awarded Alsfeld the status of a model European community for the conservation of historic buildings, the old centre of the town of Hann. Münden comprises roughly 700 half-timbered houses, the 1300-year-old town of Fritzlar is famous for its imperial cathedral, the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Childrens and Household Tales by the Grimm brothers was observed in 2012-2013 with a series of events. Many other events, open-air festivals, exhibits, and performances dealing with the topic of fairy tales are held annually. E. Michael Iba, Thomas L. Johnson, THE GERMAN FAIRY TALE LANDSCAPE - The storied world of the Brothers Grimm, CW Niemeyer, ISBN 978-3-8271-9139-7 Eberhard Michael Iba, Die Deutsche Märchenstraße. Eine sagenhafte Reise vom Main zum Meer, Hameln 2011, ISBN 978-3-8271-9136-6 Eberhard Michael Iba, Auf den Spuren der Brüder Grimm. Teil I, Eine literarische Reise von Hanau nach Höxter, ISBN 2-9599793-0-3 Eberhard Michael Iba, Auf den Spuren der Brüder Grimm von Hanau nach Bremen. ISBN 3-7917-0536-9 Michael Pasdzior, Matthias Reinhard, Die Deutsche Märchenstraße, Auf den Spuren der Brüder Grimm. ISBN 3-89234-681-X Dorothee Hemme, Märchenstraßen - Lebenswelten, zur kulturellen Konstruktion einer touristischen Themenstraße. ISBN 978-3-643-10179-2 Website of the German Fairy Tale Route, münden The city of Bremen The city of Bremerhaven
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Brothers Grimm Memorial in Hanau, by
Syrius Eberle
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Alsfeld, Fairy Tale House
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Kassel:
Herkules monument by night
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Sleeping Beauty Castle Sababurg
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Grimm (TV series)
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Grimm is an American occult detective police procedural drama series. It debuted in the U. S. on NBC on October 28,2011, on March 31,2017, NBC aired the series finale. The show has been described as a cop drama—with a twist, a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms Fairy Tales exist, although the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources. Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of creatures, with help from his Wesen friend, Monroe. Opening, There once was a man who lived a life so strange, only he could see what no one else can—the darkness inside, the real monster within, and hes the one who must stop them. This is the life of a Grimm, david Giuntoli as Nicholas Nick Burkhardt, the eponymous Grimm. Nick is a Homicide detective, whose Aunt Marie tells him that he is descended from a line of hunters, called Grimms, who fight supernatural forces. He temporarily lost his Grimm power after the event of season 3 finale through a scheme by Adalind. He later learns that Adalind is carrying his child, which was revealed to be a boy, Russell Hornsby as Hank Griffin, Nicks Homicide partner, who is not aware that Nick is a Grimm until Episode 3 of Season 2. Bitsie Tulloch as Juliette Silverton and Eve, Nicks girlfriend, a veterinarian and she was originally unaware of Nicks duties as a Grimm until he tells her in the finale of Season 1. Although Nicks Aunt Marie suggested that he leave Juliette for her safety and he postponed his original plans to propose to her while he explores his new life as a Grimm. After her plans for revenge culminate in the death of Nicks mother, in season 5, Tulloch plays Eve a mysterious woman who has all of Juliette’s memories and powers, but none of her emotional attachments. Silas Weir Mitchell as Monroe, a creature called a Blutbad who aids Nick with his cases. He is also a friend of Nicks, even though he has some issues with Grimms since a Grimm killed his grandfather. He also helps Nick make contact with creatures that would avoid Nick due to his status as a Grimm, eventually, Monroe fell in love with and married Rosalee, despite facing some hostility from a Wesen cult focused on purity due to their mixed heritage. Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean Renard, a fluent francophone, Nicks adept, Renard is a magical creature called Zauberbiest and royal bastard. His mother Elizabeth is a Hexenbiest, a witch, and his father is a Royal and he is also the father of Hexenbiest Adalind Schades daughter Diana. Reggie Lee as Sergeant Drew Wu, a sergeant who works with Nick and Hank, he tends to do the grunt work for them, running down facts
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Production notice posted in Portland, Oregon in October 2013
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Once Upon a Time (TV series)
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Once Upon a Time is an American fairy tale television series that premiered on October 23,2011, on ABC. It follows the heroine Emma Swan as she protects the town and its inhabitants from various curses and villains, Most episodes involve flashbacks telling its numerous characters stories. The show airs Sundays at 8,00 pm ET/7,00 pm CT and it borrows elements and characters from the Disney-franchise and popular Western literature, folklore, and fairy tales. Once Upon a Time was created by Lost and Tron, Legacy writers Edward Kitsis, a spin-off series, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on October 10,2013, and concluded on April 3,2014. On March 3,2016, ABC renewed the series for a sixth season, the residents of Storybrooke, where Regina is its mayor, have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging. As such, she is the person who can break the curse. Henry is also the son of Regina, providing a source of both conflict and common interest between the two women. The other, set in the present day, follows a pattern with a different outcome. The first season premiered on October 23,2011, the Evil Queen interrupts the wedding of Snow White and Prince Charming to announce that she will cast a curse on everyone that will leave her with the only happy ending. The majority of the fairy characters are transported to the town of Storybrooke, Maine. The second season premiered on September 30,2012, despite Emma having broken the curse, the characters are not returned to the fairy tale world, and must deal with their own dual identities. With the introduction of magic into Storybrooke by Mr, the third season premiered on September 29,2013. It was split into two volumes, with the first eleven episodes running from September to December 2013, and the half from March to May 2014. In the first volume, the characters travel to Neverland to rescue Henry. Their increasing power struggle with Pan continues in Storybrooke, which results in the complete reversal of the original curse. All the characters are returned to their worlds, leaving Emma. Once again, Emma is needed to save her family, the fourth season premiered on September 28,2014. It was also split into two volumes, with the first eleven episodes running from September to December 2014, and the half from March to May 2015
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Once Upon a Time
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The cast as they appeared in season three.
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Steveston, BC doubles as the town of Storybrooke, Maine for the series.
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