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2024/07/09 Fairy tale: The Bremen town musicians - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. There was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came found him less capable of work. Then his master began to think of turning him out, but the ass ...
2024/07/12 Fairy tale: The goose girl - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. There lived once an old Queen, whose husband had been dead many years. She had a beautiful daughter who was promised in marriage to a King's son living a great way off. When the time appointed for the wedding drew near, and the old Queen had to send her daughter into ...
4.28. 165,539 ratings3,583 reviews. Originally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and ...
2024/07/10 Fairy tale: The brother and sister - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The brother took his sister's hand and said to her, Since our mother died we have had no good days, our stepmother beats us every day, and if we go near her she kicks us away, we have nothing to eat but hard crusts of bread left over, the dog under the table fares better, he gets a good piece every now and then.
2024/07/04 Fairy tale: The two brothers - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. There were once upon a time two brothers, one rich and the other poor. The rich one was a goldsmith and evil-hearted. The poor one supported himself by making brooms, and was good and honourable. The poor one had two children, who were twin brothers and as like each ...
Classification (Aarne-Thompson): 2024/07/12 Fairy tale: The frog king or Iron Henry - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who has seen so much, wondered ...
A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. FIRST STORY. A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last he had nothing left but leather for one pair of shoes. So in the evening, he cut out the shoes which he wished to begin to make the next morning, and as he had a good conscience, he lay down quietly in his bed, commended himself ...
