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Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Jacob Grimm
5,760 books2,263 followersGerman philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as
Grimm's Fairy Tales
(1812-1815).
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
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November 7, 2023
I admit that I did not complete this book in a timely fashion. Reading all 269 pages was a bit of a chore. The total stories in this collection add up to 52. Some stories are slightly repeated with a few tweaks; however, the majority are varied. This book holds some more well known stories as well as simple shorts.
Stories in order:
1) The Rabbit’s Bride
2) Six Soldiers Of Fortune
3) Clever Grethel
4) The Death Of The Hen
5) Hans In Luck
6) The Goose Girl
7) The Raven
8) The Frog Prince
9) Cat And Mouse In Partnership
10) The Wold And The Seven Little Goats
11) Faithful John
12) The Wonderful Musician
13) The Twelve Brothers
14) The Vagabonds
15) The Brother And Sister
16) Rapunzel
17) The Three Little Men In The Wood
18) The Three Spinsters
19) Hansel And Grethel
20) The White Snake
21) The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean
22) The Fisherman And His Wife
23) The Gallant Tailor
24) Aschenputtel
25) The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage
26) Mother Hulda
27) Little Red-Cap
28) The Bremen Town Musicians
29) Prudent Hans
30) Clever Else
31) The Table, The Ass, And The Stick
32) Tom Thumb
33) How Mrs. Fox Married Again
34) The Elves
35) The Robber Bridegroom
36) Mr. Korbes
37) Tom Thumb’s Travels
38) The Almond Tree
39) Old Sultan
40) The Six Swans
41) The Sleeping Beauty
42) King Thrushbeard
43) Snow-White
44) The Knapsack, The Hat, And The Horn
45) Rumpelstiltskin
46) Roland
47) The Golden Bird
48) The Dog And The Sparrow
49) Fred And Kate
50) The Little Farmer
51) The Queen Bee
52) The Golden Goose
Although these stories are generally touted as dark, disturbing they are mostly cautionary. The endings also (in most cases) leave our protagonist in a wonderful standing.
To finish this collection, I also read them to my own kids who are 7 and 9. They got lots of laughs from Fred and Kate. I also enjoyed The Dog And The Sparrow because it’s the ultimate tale of revenge in an absurd way.
Stories in order:
1) The Rabbit’s Bride
2) Six Soldiers Of Fortune
3) Clever Grethel
4) The Death Of The Hen
5) Hans In Luck
6) The Goose Girl
7) The Raven
8) The Frog Prince
9) Cat And Mouse In Partnership
10) The Wold And The Seven Little Goats
11) Faithful John
12) The Wonderful Musician
13) The Twelve Brothers
14) The Vagabonds
15) The Brother And Sister
16) Rapunzel
17) The Three Little Men In The Wood
18) The Three Spinsters
19) Hansel And Grethel
20) The White Snake
21) The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean
22) The Fisherman And His Wife
23) The Gallant Tailor
24) Aschenputtel
25) The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage
26) Mother Hulda
27) Little Red-Cap
28) The Bremen Town Musicians
29) Prudent Hans
30) Clever Else
31) The Table, The Ass, And The Stick
32) Tom Thumb
33) How Mrs. Fox Married Again
34) The Elves
35) The Robber Bridegroom
36) Mr. Korbes
37) Tom Thumb’s Travels
38) The Almond Tree
39) Old Sultan
40) The Six Swans
41) The Sleeping Beauty
42) King Thrushbeard
43) Snow-White
44) The Knapsack, The Hat, And The Horn
45) Rumpelstiltskin
46) Roland
47) The Golden Bird
48) The Dog And The Sparrow
49) Fred And Kate
50) The Little Farmer
51) The Queen Bee
52) The Golden Goose
Although these stories are generally touted as dark, disturbing they are mostly cautionary. The endings also (in most cases) leave our protagonist in a wonderful standing.
To finish this collection, I also read them to my own kids who are 7 and 9. They got lots of laughs from Fred and Kate. I also enjoyed The Dog And The Sparrow because it’s the ultimate tale of revenge in an absurd way.
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