Tagged: The Brothers Grimm

August 7, 2022

Favorite international folk- and fairy tales about cats

Animal characters often play important roles in fairy- and folk tales. Sometimes they act as companions, sometimes even as the main characters of our stories. Several characters get special attention and are mentioned frequently...

May 7, 2022

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day Let us celebrate Mother’s Day with our most beloved folk tales about mothers! The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled – Folk Tales from Bengal Once on a time there reigned...

January 27, 2022

FREDERICK AND CATHERINE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married. One day Frederick said. ‘Kate! I am going to work in the...

November 1, 2021

Best Scary Fairy Tales for Halloween

Halloween or Hallows Eve. It was the Celtic New Year festival, which marked the beginning of winter and also recognized a kind of harvest festival. The Celts believed that on this evening the gates...

July 30, 2021

Fairytales for the international “Friendship Day” (30.07)

An Irish proverb say: “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” Like Mother’s or Valentine’s Day we shouldn’t need a dedicated day to celebrate what is...

December 15, 2020

THE LITTLE PEASANT (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He had not even so much as a cow, and...