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."

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