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"Dyin' on a Prayer" is the fourth episode of season 4 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 70th episode overall, which premiered on November 14, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Sean Calder and was directed by Tawnia McKiernan.
The Brothers Grimm noted its similarity to the Italian The Goat-faced Girl and the Norwegian The Lassie and Her Godmother. [2] They also noted its connection to the forbidden door and tell-tale stain of Fitcher's Bird. [2] Other tales that make use of these elements are Bluebeard and "In the Black Woman's Castle". [3]
The Shroud, (Das Totenhemdchen): KHM 109, also known as The Burial Shirt and The Little Shroud, is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Grimm's Fairy Tales) in 1815. It contains elements of Aarne–Thompson type 769: The Death of a Child. [1]
"The Six Swans" (German: Die sechs Schwäne) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 49). [1] [2] It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found throughout Europe.
"The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. [1] Joseph Jacobs included a variant, Mr Fox, in English Fairy Tales, [2] but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the Mr. Fox variant in Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1: [3]
The story is adapted in the film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, where the boar is replaced with a dragon and the brothers are replaced by a knight and his squire. The squire is miraculously revived at the end of the tale, and the knight is not executed but instead must become the now knighted squire's servant as punishment.
"The Grave Mound" (German: Der Grabhügel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, KHM 195. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 779, Divine Rewards and Punishments. [ 2 ]
"The Three Feathers" (German: Die drei Federn) is a story by the Brothers Grimm, in their Kinder- und Hausmärchen. It is KHM nr. 63. It is classified as Aarne–Thompson–Uther ATU 402, "The Animal Bride". It appeared in the first edition in 1812, and was slightly reworked for the second edition in 1819.