Brothers Grimm fairy tales challenge

(Couldn’t think of a more snappy title...)

Here is the list of contents from my edition (Oxford University Press, edited by Joyce Crick) giving the stories and the order in which I plan to read them so that you can join in too if you like; sorry it’s rather undemocratic and that if you have another edition you have to fall in behind me and Joyce and do it our way, but that’s just tough. [Thumps iron fist.]

But how can you resist reading ‘The Tale of the Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage’? Or ‘Reviewing the Brides’?

First tale is ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’, and I intend to post every Monday, so first post will be Monday 3rd September. Onward!

(Although this image strongly resembles me in my natural habitat, it is in fact by Walter Crane, in Lucy Crane (translator), Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (London: Macmillan & Co., 1882) found at the Sur La Lune website)

1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry
2. Cat and Mouse as Partners
3. Our Lady’s Child
4. The Tale of the Boy who Set Out to Learn Fear
5. The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
6. Faithful John
7. The Good Bargain
8. The Twelve Brothers
9. The Pack of No-Good, Low-Life Ruffians
10. Little Brother and Little Sister
11. Rapunzel
12. The Three Little Men in the Forest
13. Hansel and Gretel
14. The Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife
15. The Brave Little Tailor
16. Ashypet
17. The Tale of the Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
18. Mother Holle of the Snow
19. The Seven Ravens
20. Little Redcap
21. The Bremen Town Band
22. The Singing Bone
23. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
24. The Girl with No Hands
25. Clever Hans
26. Sensible Elsie
27. The Table-Lay, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack
28. Little Thumb
29. Mrs Fox’s Wedding
30. The Robber Bridegroom
31. Godfather Death
32. Thumbling’s Travels
33. Fitcher’s Bird
34. The Tale of the Juniper Tree
35. Old Sultan
36. The Six Swans
37. Briar-Rose
38. Foundling Bird
39. Snow-White
40. Knapsack, Hat, and Horn
41. Rumpelstiltskin
42. The Golden Bird
43. The Golden Goose
44. Coat o’ Skins
45. Jorinda and Joringel
46. The Three Children of Fortune
47. Six Make their Way through the Whole World
48. Grandfather and Grandson
49. The Tale of Little Hen’s Death
50. Hans in Luck
51. The Fox and the Geese
52. The Singing, Soaring Lark
53. The Goose-Girl
54. The Young Giant
55. The King of the Golden Mountain
56. The Water of Life
57. The Bearskin Man
58. Tales of Toads and Adders
59. The Jew in the Thorn Bush
60. The Bright Sun Brings it to Light
61. The Wilful Child
62. The Devil and his Grandmother
63. One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three Eyes
64. The Shoes that were Danced to Tatters
65. Iron John
66. The Lord’s Beasts and the Devil’s
67. The Little Shepherd Boy
68. The Starry Coins
69. The Stolen Farthing
70. Reviewing the Brides
71. The Tale of Cockaigne
72. The Tall Tale from Diethmarsch
73. A Riddling Tale
74. Snow-White and Rose-Red
75. Sharing Joy and Sorrow
76. The Moon
77. The Messengers of Death
78. The Unequal Children of Eve
79. The Golden Key
80. St Joseph in the Forest
81. The Rose
82. Our Lady’s Goblet