Grimm’s Saga No. 298: The Three Tells From the wild mountain regions of Switzerland, a Tale of Three Slumbering Knights According to popu...

Goldbeard Variations In the debate over the origin of Bluebeard , the identity of the knight has been variously attributed. Some see hi...

Grimm’s Saga No. 440: The Dogs of Dagobert The people of France still commemorate King Dagobert in two adages, the origin of which has b...

Grimm's Saga No. 439: King Dagobert’s Soul in the Ship When goodly King Dagobert left this vale of tears, the dear God allowed Satan...

King Friedrich Redbeard Sleeps in Kyffhaeuser Mountain There are many legends circulating about this king. They say he is not really dead bu...

King Thrushbeard There once lived a king whose daughter was beautiful beyond measure. But the girl was so proud and arrogant that no su...

A Swiss Fairy Tale: know them by the color of the their beards. Knight Goldbeard Once a black horse appeared in the Visper Valley. On...

Fairy Tale of Knight Bluebeard (Translated from the German Text of Ludwig Bechtstein) There once lived a powerful knight who had such eno...

Nebra Sky Disk The days are getting longer as we approach spring! Soon we will be setting our clocks forward so I encourage you to read...

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...