Grimm's Fairy Tales

[Grimmfangirling]

I recently purchased a soft bound copy of the brother's Grimm fairy tales. (Sadly Cinderella was not included) but I already read the original version. Theres no fairy godmother there.. instead its birds that were helping her. Plus the birds plucked the eyes of the evil ones.

It would be nice if we could study the fairy tales together... you know with analysis and interpretation. I just became curious with the fairy tales again because of Grimm's NBC series. Bit connection.

I read Hans in luck. AT first I thought the protagonist was kinda stupid because he exchanged the things he have for the lesser valuable things. But the real moral lesson is life is easy if you have lesser things. Because if you have lots of things the more problems you'll gonna have.

[Gretel Hanselsister]

Perhaps you will find this webpage helpful:

https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/list

The famous fairy-tales, the nearly unknown fairy-tales, everything from the brothers Grimm. Cinderellas fairy godmother was a Walt Disney creation, wasn't it? I've known the story with the tree and the birds since I was a child.
I agree, Hans in luck is about "the more you have the more you have to worry about", he is both stupid and wise, great stuff for discussions .

[FaceInTheCrowd]

The fairy godmother, pumpkin carriage and glass slippers originate from Cendrillon, a French pre-Grimm version by Charles Perrault.

[Grimmfangirling]

Hello Gretel.. and Face in the Crowd.

Oh I see...

I need to buy the Complete Grimm's fairy tales... argh! But its a bit expensive and its also hard bound.

I didn't know that Cinderella that i've known is a French version.

[FaceInTheCrowd]

The Cinderella story has a very, very long ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Xian

[Gretel Hanselsister]

Thank you, I didn't know about Cinderellas long history, very interesting!

[Grimmfangirling]

I think I saw this cartoon wayback... cinderella fairy tale has a lot of versions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou0Wy4ucjs

[Zansy]

The Brothers Grimm often ran into the problem that they were told supposed Folk Tales that actually originated from stories by specific authors. Charles Perrault is one of them. They tried to prevent including those, but they didn't catch all of them and/or some had changed so much that they were included nonetheless.

Too bad that this thread didn't become more popular. Would have been fun to hear which of the tales people like best.