Friday, May 1, 2020

Reading Notes: Grimm: The Robber Bridegroom, Part A

Grimm: The Robber Bridegroom: This story is part of the Brothers Grimm (Crane) unit. Story source: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

- Daughter of the miller is of marriage age
- "the girl did not seem to love him as a bride should love her bridegroom: she had no confidence in him; as often as she saw him or thought about him, she felt a chill at her heart."
- the suited strewed ashes on the path for her to follow 
- she gets to a house, but cannot find her bridegroom
- "One of them noticed on the little finger of their victim a golden ring, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took an axe and chopped it off, but the finger jumped away and fell behind the cask on the bride's lap. The robber took up a light to look for it, but he could not find it."
- "The wind had carried away the ashes from the path, but the peas and lentils had budded and sprung up, and the moonshine upon them showed the way."
- "The robber, who during the story had grown deadly white, sprang up and would have escaped, but the folks held him fast and delivered him up to justice. And he and his whole gang were, for their evil deeds, condemned and executed."

Reading Notes: Grimm: The Twelve Huntsmen, Part B

Grimm: The Twelve Huntsmen: This story is part of the Brothers Grimm (LibriVox) unit. Story source: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

- King's son has a bride he loves, but the news of his father forces him to leave the woman with a ring and a promise to return
- King asks the son to marry someone other than whom the young man loved
- The Son marries
- "When they came to the king's daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen's clothes, and she herself put on the twelfth suit"
- these 12 became part of the King's service
- The lion tells the king the huntsmen are actually females
- challenge after challenge is given to prove the huntsmen are females
  • first: pea challenge
  • second: spinning wheel 
- on the hunt, at the news of the actual wife approaching, the lover in the huntsman disguise fainted and the King then saw the ring when he pulled her glove off

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Reading Notes: Grimm: Rapunzel, Part A

Grimm: Rapunzel: This story is part of the Brothers Grimm (LibriVox) unit. Story source: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm


- Man and woman living, want a child
- there's a garden in the back and the woman wants the rampion, so her husband climbs down to get it for her
- The enchantress, who the garden belongs to, questions the husband as to why he was stealing from her
- the enchantress  allows him to take as much rampion, but tells him he must give her his first child
- a baby was born, the enchantress named her Rapunzel and took her away only to lock her up in a tower
- the enchantress would climb up when Rapunzel let down her hair
- King's son is riding through and wants to marry her, they agree to build a ladder for her to get down with
- The enchantress finds out and takes her to the desert
- in the end the king's son finds her and leads her to the kingdom