*Ø* Blogmanac | Happy birthday, Jakob Grimm
1785 Jakob Grimm, German folklorist and philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm. Jakob and his younger brother Wilhelm, were professors at Berlin, investigators of the early history and literature of Germany. They published a large Dictionary of the German Language, and their famous Grimm’s Tales.
Not very Disney
“Before they could fall asleep a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be let inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that there was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accused the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men. Threatening to make a quick end to such evil business, she went away in a rage.
“That same night she returned with two men, whom she had brought up from the bank of the Rhine. Together they broke into the house and killed the seven dwarfs …”
Not by Grimm, but ‘The Death of the Seven Dwarfs’, Ernst Ludwig Rochholz, Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau, vol. 1 (Aarau: Druck und Verlag von H. R. Sauerländer, 1856), no. 222, p. 312
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1785 Jakob Grimm, German folklorist and philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm. Jakob and his younger brother Wilhelm, were professors at Berlin, investigators of the early history and literature of Germany. They published a large Dictionary of the German Language, and their famous Grimm’s Tales.
Not very Disney
“Before they could fall asleep a peasant woman appeared before their house, knocked on the door, and asked to be let inside. The girl got up immediately and told the woman that the dwarfs had only seven beds, and that there was no room there for anyone else. With this the woman became very angry and accused the girl of being a slut, thinking that she was cohabiting with all seven men. Threatening to make a quick end to such evil business, she went away in a rage.
“That same night she returned with two men, whom she had brought up from the bank of the Rhine. Together they broke into the house and killed the seven dwarfs …”
Not by Grimm, but ‘The Death of the Seven Dwarfs’, Ernst Ludwig Rochholz, Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau, vol. 1 (Aarau: Druck und Verlag von H. R. Sauerländer, 1856), no. 222, p. 312
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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