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Clever Gretel (German: Das kluge Gretel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, KHM 195. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1741 - Trickster Wives and Maids and was first published in the second edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819.
"The Peasant's Wise Daughter", "The Peasant's Clever Daughter" or "The Clever Lass" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as tale number 94. [2] It has also spread into Bohemia and Božena Němcová included it into her collection of Czech national folk tales in 1846.
Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has written a short, clever novel that tells the story of a woman over the course of her life in a series of museum ...
Clever Elsie, as her parents call her, is to be married. When a suitor named Hans comes to visit, Elsie goes down to the cellar to get some beer. There she spots a pickaxe stuck in the wall above the beer keg; she imagines that if she married Hans and started a family, that pickaxe could fall and kill their child.
"Clever Hans" (German "Der gescheite Hans") is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 32) about a boy who ruins his engagement with a girl through a variety of comedic events. The title is claimed by most peo
Clever Maria is a Portuguese fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Crimson Fairy Book. [1] Synopsis. A merchant had three daughters, and the youngest, Maria ...
"The Screwfly Solution" received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1978, and has been adapted into a television film. The title refers to the sterile insect technique , a technique of eradicating the population of screwflies by the release of large amounts of sterilized males that would compete with fertile males, thus reducing the native ...
Eddie Hawkins—"Hudson Hawk" (from the bracing winds off the Hudson)—is a master cat burglar and safe-cracker with a penchant for using low-tech solutions against high-tech security systems and for conducting his robberies with precise, synchronized timing (later revealed to be a robust catalog of memorized music that he and his partner(s) sing along with during jobs).