Brothers Grimm
- Tale Summary Three brothers all camp together, and a small dwarf comes and finds them. As they change watch throughout the night to get enough sleep the dwarf continues to return and grant them each a magical gift. To the first brother, he gives a
- Tale Summary An ass who can no longer work for his master takes the journey away from his home and to Bremen where he plans to be a town musician. Along the way, he runs into a hound, cat, and cock who all join the ass to be musicians in Bremen. At
- Tale Summary When a poor Miller must speak with the King, he tells him that his daughter has the ability to spin straw into gold to make himself seem more notable. The king demands the presence of the girl. The miller鈥檚 daughter is shut into a large
- Tale Summary Once upon a time, a woman was pestered by a rabbit who was eating all of her fine cabbages, and so she tells her daughter to hunt it. She asks the rabbit to please stop eating the crops, and he asks her to climb on his tail and
- Tale Summary In olden times, the king had a beautiful young daughter, who often amused herself by sitting at the side of a fountain in the woods and throwing a golden ball up in the air to catch. One day, she drops it and loses it in the water. A
- Tale Summary This tale starts with the princess being born and all of the fairies presenting her with birthday wishes. One fairy, who had not been invited to the party, cursed her and said that during her fifteenth year she would prick her finger
- Tale Summary The story begins with a frog announcing that the king and queen will have a child in a year鈥檚 time. After the birth, the king holds a great feast, inviting twelve of the thirteen wise women in his kingdom to gain favor for the child.
- Tale Summary The tale begins with an old man, the antagonist, who approaches a poor miller about an exchange for wealth for what is standing behind the mill (the miller was unaware that his daughter was standing behind the mill). Three years later
- Tale Summary In the Grimm Brothers' version of Cinderella, she had a hazel bush where a white dove makes any of Cinderella鈥檚 wishes come true. She leaves behind a small golden slipper at the ball and her two stepsisters try cutting off a toe or a
- Tale Summary A tailor sits at home and while making a vest kills seven flies at once with a cloth. Impressed by his actions he makes a belt saying, 鈥渟even at one stroke鈥 and leaves for the city to make money on his accomplishment. While travelling,