Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, 1812
The stories you half-remember, in their first blunt telling: wolves at the door, children counting pebbles, talking birds, and bargains that are never quite fair.
Jacob Grimm
1785–1863
Wilhelm Grimm married Dortchen Wild, the neighbor who supplied many of the tales, including 'Hansel and Gretel,' telling them to him across a garden wall.
Feels like wonder, dread and love.
A girl too tired to take a bed that isn't hers.
She walked the whole night long, and next day also without stopping, until she could go no farther for weariness. Then she saw a forest-hut, and went into it, and found a room with six little beds. She did not venture to get into any of them, but crept under one, and lay down on the hard ground, to pass the night there. Just before sunset she heard a rustling, and saw six Swans come flying in at the window. They alighted on the ground and blew at each other, and blew all the feathers off, and their swan’s skins stripped off like a shirt. Books by Jacob Grimm
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