Food and the lack thereof is a common theme that runs through a lot of fairy tales all around the world. The Grimm Brothers are widely known for using food as one of their main motives. So well known actually that even the Telegraph treated it in their article Grimms fairytale food. In one of…
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LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that…
MOTHER HOLLE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the…
THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm
Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together. For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores. The bird’s duty was to fly daily into the wood…
THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm
One summer’s morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: ‘Good jams, cheap! Good jams, cheap!’ This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the…
FUNDEVOGEL (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm
There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the…