Grimm’s Saga No. 224: Maiden of the Meadows A boy from Auerbach near the Mountain Road tended his father’s cows on the narrow valley...

Grimm’s Saga No. 351: The Maiden Notburga In the lower Inn Valley in Tyrol lies Rostenburg Castle ,* where in times of old a piou...

Grimm’s Saga No. 211: The Devil as Advocate Once a farmhand living in the Mark gave his landlord money for safekeeping. When he asked ...

Grimm’s Saga No. 222 The Chatelaine of Oselberg In ancient times a castle stood on the Oselberg Mountain between Dinkelsbuehl...

Grimm's Saga No. 276 The Legend of the Monks who Crossed the Rhine In ancient times there lived a certain fisherman i...

Grimm’s Saga No. 445 The Golden Stag of Magdeburg In Magdeburg near Roland there once stood a stag with golden collar...

Reading the Fairy Tale The Spirit in the Glass However far-fetched it might seem, the claim that this fairy tale has been thousands of...

Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 99: The Ghost in the Glass (Also known as The Spirit in the Bottle or The Genie in the Bottle ) There once liv...

(Lucas Cranach, the Farmer) The Difference between Speaking and Communicating Sorted Out in this Fairy Tale from Lithuania A Retelling ...

Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 188: Spindle, Shuttle and Needle There once lived a young maiden, whose father and mother had died when she was a...

Men Who Become Wolves A fairy tale from Lithuania: The Man Who Became a Wolf There once lived a farmer who led his horses out into...

Grimm’s Saga No. 168: The Long Man in Murder Lane (in Hof) Before the plague came to Hof in 1519, a large, dark, long man could b...

The Butterfly A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen A butterfly longed to find a bride; so of course it sought a pretty one amongst th...

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