Dorothea Viehmann
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Dorothea Viehmann was a German storyteller. Her stories were an important source for the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most of Dorothea Viehmann's tales were published in the second volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Dorothea Viehmann, contemporary portrait by Ludwig Emil Grimm, a brother of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
Home of Dorothea Viehmann in Niederzwehren, where she lived between 1787 and 1798
Hans My Hedgehog
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"Hans My Hedgehog" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. The tale was translated as Jack My Hedgehog by Andrew Lang and published in The Green Fairy Book. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 441.
Hans My Hedgehog meets the king on its chicken mount. Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde.