Tagged: The Brothers Grimm

October 30, 2020

Favorite folk- and fairy tales about greed

Folk- and fairy tales hand down a morality and principles for living together in a society. Since greed is such a wide-spread human trait, it became one of the most famous motives in folk...

March 24, 2020

Best folk and fairy tales about WATER – Happy World Water Day

The 22 of March is the UN’s world water day. Water is a source of life and an important element of many folk- and fairy tales. Therefore fairytalenight.com has collected the best stories around water...

July 14, 2019

TOM THUMB (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. ‘How lonely it is, wife,’ said he, as he puffed out...

May 19, 2019

RUMPELSTILTSKIN (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. The miller’s house was close by, and...

May 14, 2019

Best Tales about seeking Immortality and Immortal beings

The idea for this Top list came when I read about a Startup that wants to upload people’s mind to the cloud. A lethal procedure with an uncertain outcome (read more about Nectome on...

May 12, 2019

THE WATER OF LIFE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

Long before you or I were born, there reigned, in a country a great way off, a king who had three sons. This king once fell very ill—so ill that nobody thought he could...