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2. Rumpelstiltskin - Wikipedia

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   Grimm's Fairy Tales. English Fairy Tales. " Rumpelstiltskin " ( / ˌrʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale. [2] It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's ...

3. Category:Plays based on fairy tales - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; Help ... Musicals based on fairy tales‎ (3 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Plays based on fairy tales"

4. The Nightingale (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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   Plot. In the gardens of the emperor of China lived a nightingale whose song was more beautiful than the palace itself and was storied all over the world. When the emperor received a book from the emperor of Japan he was astonished to read about the nightingale, because he had never heard of it, nor had anyone in his court.

5. The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack

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   Grimm Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm. " The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack " is a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. The original German name is Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack . The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 563, "The Table, the Ass, and the Stick ...

6. Sweet Porridge - Wikipedia

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   Why the Sea Is Salt; The Water Mother. " Sweet Porridge " ( German: Der süße Brei ), often known in English under the title of " The Magic Porridge Pot ", is a folkloric German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm, as tale number 103 in Grimm's Fairy Tales, in the 19th century. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 565, the magic mill.

7. The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - Wikipedia

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   The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. " The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats " ( German: Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 5). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 123 "The Wolf and the Kids". [1]

8. The Juniper Tree (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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   The Juniper Tree (fairy tale) " The Juniper Tree " (also The Almond Tree; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 47). [1] The story contains themes of child abuse, murder, cannibalism and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's ...

9. On Fairy-Stories - Wikipedia

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   The essay "On Fairy-Stories" is an attempt to explain and defend the genre of fairy tales or Märchen. It distinguishes Märchen from "traveller's tales" (such as Gulliver's Travels), science fiction (such as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine), beast tales (such as Aesop's Fables and Peter Rabbit), and dream stories (such as Alice in Wonderland ...