Here is a Grimm Fairy Tale that I did not know about or even heard of entitled 'The Straw, The Coal and the Bean'. This is a very short one but is really quite descriptive. It is a tale of three odd friends working together to achieve a goal of some kind. Even though the straw still burns and the coal fizzles out and the bean splits. At least they tried for a little while to survive living. It is also a tale on how we see beans now-a-days with a black seam. To me this is an unusual tale on how to get children to eat their vegetables maybe.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales #3
Here is another famous fairy tale from this edition entitled 'Little Red Cap' and just by the title you may have guessed that it is the real 'Little Red Riding Hood' where there still is a mother who sends her daughter to visit her sick grandmother with cake and wine and warns her not to dawdle in the forest too long for you never know what may happen. This Little Red Cap wonders along further and further into the woods to pick flowers for grandma too, and you guessed it thinks she better get moving for it is getting late. She arrives but to find out through a conversation she and 'Grandma' have for we all know is the big bad wolf in disguise after he eats grandma and then her for in this story the wolf after eating them decides to take a nap. Along comes a hunter and hearing Red Cap in the wolf's stomach decides to cut open the wolf's stomach and let's Red Cap and Grandma out and replaces them with stones and sews the wolf up again and when the wolf awakes doesn't really feel too well and falls down and dies. In the nicer version of Little Red Riding Hood there is no cutting the wolf and replacing them with stones for Grandma and Red just escapes the wolf by running away for Little Red Riding Hood learns her lesson about being safe for herself and others. The story continues in 'Little Red Cap' for the next time another day another wolf comes along, and did she learn her lesson and proved it in a trick on this wolf? Yes, she did and went home. Why did the Grimm Brothers feel the need cut open the wolf and place stones in his stomach? It is also kind of freaky to hear a person talking after being eaten. This is like a horror story and maybe kind of gory for kids to have nightmares about being eaten by something. If I remember though there was an old cartoon that portrayed the Grimm's version of this story and made not so mean. Little Red Cap is definitely a youth and adult read while Little Red Riding Hood is fine for young children.
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I have never heard of this one either, Mark. I am finding these write-ups very interesting. You have a fan in me!
Well-wrought! We can certainly find some thread of moral instruction in all these tales of old, though in some cases we have understandably updated the tales to be less gruesome!
The themes of friendship, perseverance, and the whimsical explanation of the black seam on beans make it a captivating story.
Another one that sounds a great read βοΈ