Children's and Household Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · c. 1812 CE · Folktale · German · Romantic

Two philologists collecting evidence for a German national language took down stories from tellers around Kassel and published them: the girl in the tower, the children who follow crumbs to a house made of bread, the goose girl, the miller's daughter and the small man who spins straw. Across seven editions the brothers kept revising, sharpening the morals and removing the sex while leaving the punishments where they were. The book that gave folklore its discipline, its comparative method and eventually its numbering system.

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Lineage

• ↓ Vasilisa the Beautiful
  Russian folktale · c. 1855 CE · Folktale — shares sources with this
• ↓ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  David Hand · 1937 CE · Film — adapts this
• ↓ Norwegian Folktales
  Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe · c. 1841 CE · Folktale — modeled on this
• ↓ Italian Folktales
  Italo Calvino · c. 1956 CE · Folktale — modeled on this
• ↓ Popular Tales of the West Highlands
  John Francis Campbell · c. 1860 CE · Folktale — modeled on this
• ↓ Thumbelina
  Hans Christian Andersen · c. 1835 CE · Folktale — shares sources with this
• ↓ The Flounder
  Günter Grass · 1977 CE · Novel — reworks this
• ↓ The Rat
  Günter Grass · 1986 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ Transformations
  Anne Sexton · 1971 CE · Poem — retells this
• ↓ The Robber Bride
  Margaret Atwood · 1993 CE · Novel — takes its title from this
• ↓ The Robber Bridegroom
  Eudora Welty · 1942 CE · Novel — reworks this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Russian Fairy Tales
  Alexander Afanasyev · c. 1855 CE · Folktale

  68% · 18 shared
  FolktaleFantasyGood vs EvilComing of AgeTransformationInnocentHeroineTricksterSorceressEpisodicRags to RichesHero's JourneyThe ForestMetamorphosisvs Supernaturalvs PersonMythicGothic
• Vasilisa the Beautiful
  Russian folktale · c. 1855 CE · Folktale

  60% · 16 shared
  FolktaleFantasyComing-of-AgeGood vs EvilComing of AgeLoss of InnocenceInnocentHeroineSorceressRags to RichesHero's JourneyThe Forestvs Supernaturalvs PersonMythicGothic
• Tales of Mother Goose
  Charles Perrault · c. 1697 CE · Folktale

  56% · 15 shared
  FolktaleFantasyComing-of-AgeTransformationLoss of InnocenceInnocentTricksterVillain / TyrantEpisodicRags to RichesThe ForestThe Thresholdvs Supernaturalvs PersonMythic
• Italian Folktales
  Italo Calvino · c. 1956 CE · Folktale

  52% · 14 shared
  FolktaleFantasyTransformationWealth & GreedHeroineTricksterEpisodicRags to RichesThe ForestMetamorphosisGold / Treasurevs Supernaturalvs PersonMythic
• The Pentamerone
  Giambattista Basile · c. 1634 CE · Folktale

  43% · 12 shared
  FolktaleFantasyComing of AgeTransformationHeroineTricksterSorceressEpisodicMetamorphosisvs Supernaturalvs PersonMythic
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  C. S. Lewis · 1950 CE · Novel

  41% · 10 shared
  FantasyGood vs EvilLoss of InnocenceInnocentVillain / TyrantSorceressThe ForestThe Thresholdvs SupernaturalMythic