The [real] Brother's Grimm
 

Am I the only one whom read these stories? I surely to god hope not. They're rather interesting, and if you don't read them, you should look into it, they're a great read. Most people think they're childish, but they aren't by any means.

My personal favorites include Rapunzel, The Seven Ravens, The Little Brother and Little Sister, The Twelve Brothers, and the Frog Prince (or Iron Heinrich, depending on what version you're talking about).

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Favorite Grimm stories?

What versions of those are your favorite?

If the French version of Rapunzel make you pee your pants in laughter. :lol:

I was finally able to obtain a copy of the original tales, re-collected, and was ecstatic.
I'm still reading through it, and my favorite ending is when one of the evil women tells how she would punish someone who had done what she was guilty of, and then she gets that fate. I'm not sure which story it's from, but it made me laugh.
The stories are very gory compared to those we read as children, but I like the original Grimm stories better. They don't gloss over the imperfections of people.

No, they aren't. At all, by any means. They're AWFUL. Dx;;

I remember reading about that in the introduction the collection I had. Irritating to a degree, but on the other hand, those specific peasants probably hadn't created the stories either. They were folk lore, oral tradition, so they'd probably been passed down for generations, so those people just happened to be the ones the Brothers picked it up from. I don't mind so much the lack of credit to the sources so much as I mind calling them Brothers Grimm stories, because that implies that they wrote them.

One thing I found interesting when I was reading the introduction was how much the Grimms cleaned up the stories. For example, in Repunzel, we're used to hearing that she accidentally complains to the witch one day that she is heavier to haul up than the prince. The original version that they copied down however, had Repunzel asking in confusion why none of her clothes fit anymore, because she'd gotten pregnant, and didn't know it. So, considering that the Brother's Grimm did some editing, by the time these stories get though Disney, they're totally different. I try not to think of any version as being better or more true than another, but simply very, very different interpretations.

Oh! I love the The Brothers Grimm collection. I actually only recently bought it, so I haven't been able to read very much. So, I couldn't tell you which is my favorite. Out of the stories i've read so far, I like them all. lol. I love the originals, the Disney stuff is great for learning morals (I guess), but the Brothers Grimm is more fun. ^_^

Grimm
 

i absolutely adore Grimm Fairy Tales
Favs include: The Seven Ravens, Twelve Brothers, The False Princess, Little Roughskin and the good old version of Cinderella, which is so much better than the Disney we all know and watched, when the doves peck out the sisters eyes was cool, and it made sense that the steps were beautiful rather than ugly.
I think i have an older Grimm book but if you read Roughskin and The false Princess it's very cool.

P.S- Old Stories rock.
P.S.S- did you know that the Rapunzal story had to reeditied when the Brothers first published it because the story indicated in a scene where rapunzal is being dressed and measured by the witch and she says that the dress is getting tight around the middle (this is while the prince has started visiting too) oppsie :wink:
nudges and winks all round cause we know what that meant "evil giggle"

Heavens, the Grimm Brothers are MOST DEFINITELY not for children!

Has anyone ever read the absolute original versions of all the old stories?

I do not remember if the Grimm Brothers did Sleeping Beauty or not, but the story is definitely more graphic than the Disney-fied version we get.

Like when Arora (or whatever she is called) is sleeping, a king finds her. So entranced he is with her beauty, he rapes her unconcious body. She gets pregnant, gives birth in her sleep, and her child (a boy, I think) sucles on her finger, dislodging a splinter from the spindle the moron touched. She wakes up, and things get worse. I think in some versions the story ends with cannibalism and murder.

Freakishly disturbing stuff, no?

My favorite Grimm stories is Rupunzal.

Did you know that the prince knocked Rupunzal up before she was banashed from the tower and he thrown off it and blinded?

I am pretty sure she had twins.

This is dramatic stuff, huh.

I don't have Brothers Grimm but I do want then books. My twin has them.

I love finding well illustrated versions of their stories. It makes them so much more special, and I have a collection that has really stunning artwork.

I don't know if I could pick just one that I liked above the rest, but I do love Bluebeard for rather unknown reasons. I suppose some part of me just likes stories about dead bodies in forbidden rooms.

I Have heard of it i was about to buy it but i kinda saw a naruto comic in english and those are hard to find where i live so i had to have it

Although I have read most of them I find the Grimms brothers to be morbid! I think they must have had very disturbed childhoods! :)

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firstly Skrae, that story was probably the FALSE PRINCESS but you can read another version of it by Shannon Hale called GOOSE GIRL.

Jamilee i have never read that original of Sleeping Beauty, where did you get it? Rapunzal being pregnant i have know and have mentioned, i saw it mentioned on a program on the brothers.
But i must tell you that those sort of stories would have been enjoyed back when the Brothers were alive, considering that hanging was still a family-day-out spectator sport in those days just shows what people were exposed to in those times.
The pale, soppy and happy stories we are exposed to would have been too tame and unrealistic for the people of the 19th century (i am not sure of the collections debut), plus the Brothers collected these stories from all around Germany and surrounding countries, so different, if frightening stories wouldn't have been massed together before the Brothers did, adding to solitary tales.
Plus i am not quite sure that the Grimm Brothers intended that the book be targetted at children at all.
I just found them good (plus they sacred my babysitter :twisted: )