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  2. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

  3. Hans in Luck - Wikipedia

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    Hans in Luck has been described as an ironic fairy tale which inverts the normal "rags to riches" story format. [2] Instead, it can be interpreted as anti-materialistic as Hans trades in his newly won treasures and expresses relief to be freed from the weight to return home happily.

  4. The Dog and the Sparrow - Wikipedia

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    Kinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm " The Dog and the Sparrow " (German: Der Hund und der Sperling ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 58). It is a story of Aarne-Thompson type 248 ("The Man, the Dog, and the Bird").

  5. Brothers Grimm - Wikipedia

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    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were born on 4 January 1785 and 24 February 1786, respectively, in Hanau in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, within the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany), to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a jurist, and Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer), daughter of a Kassel city councilman. [1]

  6. Brother Lustig - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Grimm had the tale from Georg Passy, who heard it from an old woman in Vienna. From a version from Hessen the Brothers took the section concerning Brother Lustig arguing that a lamb has no heart. A poem from Achim von Arnim's Master Songs (No. 232) of 1550 has a soldier begging for food while his companion St Peter wants to preach. St.

  7. The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.

  8. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Grimm collected a tale in the first edition of their compilation with the name Der Vogel Phönix (English: "The Phoenix Bird"), where the hero was found by a miller in a box cast into the water and he is tasked with getting three feathers from the "Phoenix Bird", who lives in a hut atop a mountain in the company of an old lady. [27]

  9. The Pack of Ragamuffins - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Das Lumpengesindel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 10. [1]