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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.
The Family Guy episode entitled "Grimm Job" (Season 12, Episode 10), sees the show's characters take on roles in three Grimm Brothers fairy tales: "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Cinderella", and "Little Red Riding Hood". The Grimm Variations, 2024 Netflix anime series featuring retellings of six of the Grimm Brothers tales.
Here's what we do know for sure: until they were collected by early catalogers Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm, fairy tales were shared orally. And, a look at the sources cited in these first collections reveals that the tellers of these tales — at least during the Grimms' heydey — were women.
Grimm, Brüder. Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Final edition with original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales released in any earlier editions, and with origin notes, edited by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original notes, list of origins, epilogue. Corrected and bibliographically expanded edition, Stuttgart 1994.
The set of related tales was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812), as tale no. 39. Their versions of the three stories are based upon the accounts of Gretchen Wild (1787–1819).
"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.