Brothers Grimm

More from Brothers Grimm

• In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face.

  Grimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), The Frog-King, or Iron HenryIn context

  • Beauty

• To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,
  The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.
  Ha! glad am I that no one knew
  That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.

  Grimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), RumpelstiltskinIn context

• The better to eat you with!

  Grimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), Little Red-CapIn context

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