German fairy tales

"Phantastes" Written by George Macdonald - A Fairy Tale From Scotland (1871)

Stock image 1443-1067: Hansel & Gretel Otto Kubel (1868-1951 German) Colored lithograph Westfalisches Schulmuseum, Dortmund, Germany

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Frances Jenkins Olcott (Editor).

Snow White Old Fairytale book illustration

From a book of German fairy tales called Märchenbuch c1919.

"Rapunzel" by Tasha Tudor. Illustration to be found in the "Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales" (Platt and Munk, 1969).

"Cinderella" or "The Little Glass Slipper" (Italian: Cenerentola, French: Cendrillon or La Petite Pantoufle de verre, German: Aschenputtel), is an European folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression. Although the story's title and main character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore "Cinderella" is the archetypal name. The word "Cinderella" has, by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves…

The world of German folklore and fairy tales is vast with plenty to explore. Read these lesser-known tales from a variety of authors.

Der Struwwelpeter: Struwwelpeter / Wikipedia It's "lights out" for boring bedtime stories. Bye bye to the tired tropes of fairytale princesses, and errant children who somehow pull off the craziest stunts unscathed – I mean, can we just point out that Hansel and Gretel were eating someone's hous