Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 37: The Remarkable Travels of Young Thumbling There once was a farmer who sat by his hearth in the evening stokin...

Thinking About the Future: a Riddle Inside a Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma Thinking About the Future in Fairy Tales: an Egg Yolk, Wrapped ...

Grimm’s Saga No. 285: The Doomed Surveyors In times of old flibbertigibbets* were believed to flitter along the banks of streams, and i...

The Future in Fairy Tales The Prophesiers: Newsy Norns and Wee Wives In ancient Germanic mythology, prophesy and magic were most often ...

‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. (Othello) In this legend from Switzerland, a saint acquires the gift of second sight through pray...

The Bird, Who Tells the Truth, a Fairy Tale from the Rhaeto-Romansh Region of Switzerland One morning a miller found a large and heavy ch...

The Future in Fairy Tales: Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 89: The Goose Girl There once lived a queen who was no longer very young; her...

Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 197: The Crystal Ball There once lived a sorceress, she had three sons who were filled with brotherly love for eac...

The future casts long shadows on these fairy tale characters. Grimm’s Saga No. 119: Crystal Ball Gazi ng A noble and beautiful m...

The importance of seeing the future. Of all the fairy tale genres presented on this website, the Icelandic form is most interest...

Part II: Finn-magic. Ingimund commences the trip to Iceland . King Harold had retired, the mightiest of all kings in the Nor...