The Importance of Looking beyond Rough Exteriors In a heart-wrenching tale by Grimm, The Maiden with the Beard , a beautiful n...

The Puzzling Mystery of the Swan Slayers Fairy Tale Detectives Heidi and Tom go bird-watching. Lucky for them, they live in an area with...

(Illustration Tatjana Hauptmann , Das Grosse Maerchenbuch, Diogenes Verlag) Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 65: Allerleirauh T...

The community grieved the loss of its swans. Read more To read the full story of the Swan Slaying click on link. To read Fairy...

Plumed Pogrom or Fairy Tale Ethos In August 2009 my husband and I visited one of the prettiest little patches of land (should I say water)...

Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 105, The Little Ringed Snake Version II An orphan child sat at the city wall spinning. The girl saw a little sn...

(Illustration by Tomi Ungerer, Das Grosse Liederbuch ) Fairy Tale of the Little Ringed Snake , Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 105 Version I Ther...

Grimm’s Saga No. 14: The Heavy Baby In the year 1686, on June 8, two persons of noble birth made their way to Chur, Switzerland. On t...

Grimm’s Saga No. 517: The Confederacy in Ruetli (Part of the Wilhelm Tell Saga from Switzerland) A man from Schwyz called Stoeffac...

Grimm’s Saga No. 31 The Wee Folk’s Wedding Feast Wee folk lived in Eilenburg Castle in Saxony. Once these fairy folk wanted to celebr...