Grimms' Fairy Tales

A mistreated girl, aided by magic, attends a royal ball and wins the Prince's heart, escaping her cruel stepfamily.

Cinderella, a kind-hearted girl, is forced into servitude by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters after her father remarries. Despite her hardships, she remains pious and good. When the King hosts a grand feast, Cinderella, with the help of a magical hazel tree and a little white bird, receives a beautiful dress and slippers to attend. The Prince falls in love with her, but she flees at midnight, leaving behind a golden slipper. The Prince searches for its owner, and when Cinderella’s foot fits perfectly, he recognizes her as his true bride, leading to their happy union while her wicked stepsisters face divine punishment.

A spoiled princess reluctantly befriends a frog who retrieves her golden ball, only to discover he is a prince under a witch's curse.

A beautiful princess loses her golden ball in a well and promises a frog anything in return for its retrieval, though she intends to deceive him. The frog brings back the ball and later appears at the castle, demanding she honor her promise to let him eat from her plate and sleep in her bed. Disgusted, she throws him against the wall, breaking the curse and revealing him as a prince. They marry, and the prince explains he was enchanted by a witch, with only her actions able to free him.

A girl raised by the Virgin Mary disobeys and lies, losing heaven's grace until repentance restores her happiness.

A poor woodcutter's daughter is taken to heaven by the Virgin Mary, where she lives in luxury. When she disobeys by opening a forbidden door, she lies about it and is cast out to live in misery on earth. After marrying a king and losing her children due to her continued denial, she finally confesses her sin at the stake. The Virgin Mary forgives her, returning her children and speech, and restores her happiness.

A fearless young man embarks on a daring quest to learn the meaning of fear, encountering eerie challenges and unexpected rewards.

A naive young man, unable to comprehend fear, is sent by his frustrated father to learn this mysterious sensation. He apprentices with a sexton but mistakenly injures him, believing him a ghost. Banished, the youth journeys forth, eventually daring to spend three nights in a haunted castle for a king's reward—his daughter and treasure. Facing ghostly cats, moving beds, and spectral beings, he remains unshaken. Finally, after marrying the princess, his wife tricks him with a bucket of cold water and fish, startling him into understanding fear at last.

A cunning wolf deceives seven goat kids, but their quick-witted mother outsmarts him and saves her children.

A mother goat warns her seven kids about a wolf who might try to trick them. The wolf disguises his voice and paws to gain entry, devouring six of the kids while the youngest hides. Discovering the wolf asleep, the mother cuts open his belly, rescues her children, and fills his stomach with stones. When the wolf awakens and tries to drink, the stones drag him into a well, drowning him. The family rejoices at their victory.

A loyal servant risks his life to save a young king from three deadly perils foretold by ravens, ultimately sacrificing himself for his master's happiness.

An old king, on his deathbed, entrusts his son to his most loyal servant, Faithful John, warning him not to show the prince a portrait of the princess of the golden dwelling. Ignoring the warning, the young king falls in love with the image, and Faithful John helps him win her hand. However, three ravens reveal deadly dangers awaiting the king. Faithful John intervenes each time, saving the king but turning to stone after revealing his actions. The grieving king and queen later restore him to life by sacrificing their dearest possessions—their children—though Faithful John revives them as well, ensuring a happy ending.

A foolish peasant loses his money to frogs and dogs but gains fortune through sheer luck and the king's amusement.

A peasant sells his cow for seven talers but loses the money after arguing with frogs who won't stop croaking "aik." Later, he tries to sell meat, but dogs bark "wow" and take it, leaving him unpaid. When he complains to the king, his absurd story makes the princess laugh, earning him a reward. Though he initially refuses marriage, he outsmarts a greedy Jew and a soldier, securing riches from the king’s treasury through wit and chance.

A princess sacrifices her voice for seven years to break the curse that turned her twelve brothers into ravens.

A king threatens to kill his twelve sons if his next child is a daughter, prompting the queen to warn them. The brothers flee to the forest, vowing vengeance on any girl they meet. Years later, their sister discovers their fate and seeks them out. She finds them but accidentally curses them into ravens by picking enchanted flowers. To save them, she must remain silent for seven years. Despite trials, including false accusations and near execution, she endures until the curse is broken, reuniting her family.

A brother and sister flee their cruel stepmother, but when the brother drinks from a bewitched brook, he turns into a roebuck, leading to a magical and perilous journey.

A brother and sister escape their abusive stepmother, who is secretly a witch. In the forest, the brother drinks from a bewitched brook and transforms into a roebuck. The sister cares for him until a king discovers their cottage during a hunt and marries the sister. The wicked stepmother, envious of their happiness, attempts to kill the sister by suffocating her in a bath, but the sister's spirit returns to nurse her child. The king uncovers the truth, the stepmother is punished, and the brother is restored to human form, allowing them to live happily ever after.

A young girl with magical long hair is imprisoned in a tower by a witch until a prince discovers her and helps her escape.

A couple desperate for a child steals rampion from a witch’s garden, leading her to take their newborn daughter, Rapunzel, as payment. The witch locks Rapunzel in a tower with no door, using her enchanted hair as a ladder. A prince, enchanted by Rapunzel’s singing, climbs her hair to meet her, and they fall in love. When the witch discovers their secret, she cuts Rapunzel’s hair and banishes her. The prince, blinded by thorns after leaping from the tower, eventually reunites with Rapunzel, whose tears restore his sight, and they live happily ever after.

A kind-hearted stepdaughter, mistreated by her cruel stepmother, receives magical gifts from three little men, leading to her marriage to a king and eventual triumph over evil.

After her father remarries, a kind young girl is mistreated by her jealous stepmother and stepsister. Sent into the winter woods to find strawberries, she meets three little men who reward her kindness with beauty, gold, and a royal marriage. Her greedy stepsister, attempting the same, is cursed with ugliness and toads. The girl marries a king, but her stepmother and stepsister attempt to kill her. Transformed into a duck, she returns to nurse her child until the king restores her, and the villains meet a fitting end.

A lazy girl avoids spinning by enlisting the help of three strange women, whose bizarre features reveal the truth at her wedding.

A lazy girl refuses to spin, angering her mother. When the queen hears of her supposed industriousness, she takes the girl to the palace to spin vast amounts of flax, promising her son's hand in marriage. Terrified, the girl weeps until three peculiar women offer to spin for her in exchange for an invitation to her wedding. They complete the task, but at the wedding, their odd features—a flat foot, a hanging lip, and a broad thumb—reveal the truth of their spinning habits, prompting the prince to forbid his bride from ever spinning again.

Two clever siblings outwit a wicked witch after being abandoned in the forest, using their wits to escape and return home with treasure.

Hansel and Gretel, children of a poor woodcutter, are abandoned in the forest by their desperate parents. Hansel leaves a trail of pebbles to find their way back the first time, but the second time, birds eat his breadcrumb trail, leaving them lost. They discover a house made of sweets, only to be captured by a cannibalistic witch. Gretel outsmarts the witch, pushing her into her own oven, and the siblings escape with the witch’s treasure, reuniting with their remorseful father.

A brave young man revives his dead wife with magical snake-leaves, only for her to betray him, leading to a dramatic reckoning.

A poor young man rises to fame by leading his army to victory, earning the hand of a beautiful but strange princess who vows that her spouse must be buried with her if she dies first. When she falls ill and dies, the young king is entombed alive with her. Witnessing a snake revive its dead companion with three green leaves, he uses them to bring his wife back to life. However, she betrays him, plotting his murder with a ship's captain. His loyal servant saves him using the same snake-leaves, and upon their return, the king exposes the wife's treachery, condemning her and her accomplice to a watery grave.

A servant gains the power to understand animals after tasting a mysterious white snake, using his gift to overcome trials and win a princess's heart.

A wise king's servant discovers a white snake in a secret dish and gains the ability to understand animals. When falsely accused of stealing the queen's ring, he uses his newfound gift to uncover the truth. Later, he saves several animals in distress, who repay his kindness by helping him complete impossible tasks set by a proud princess, including retrieving a golden apple from the tree of life. His perseverance and the animals' aid ultimately win him the princess's love and a happy life.

A clever tailor outwits giants and beasts, claiming "Seven at one stroke," and rises from humble beginnings to become a king.

A little tailor, proud of killing seven flies in one swipe, embroiders "Seven at one stroke" on his belt and sets off to seek adventure. Through wit and trickery, he defeats giants, captures a unicorn, and subdues a wild boar, earning the hand of a princess and half a kingdom. When his true origins are nearly exposed, his cunning saves him once more, securing his royal status.

A daring king's son risks his life to solve a deadly riddle for a proud princess's hand in marriage.

A king's son, eager to explore the world, travels with his loyal servant and encounters numerous dangers, including a witch's deadly potion that kills their horse and a raven. The poison from the raven inadvertently saves them from murderous innkeepers by killing the evildoers who eat it. Continuing their journey, they reach a town where a beautiful but proud princess challenges suitors with a riddle, promising marriage to the one who stumps her, or death if she guesses correctly. The prince poses the riddle "One slew none, and yet slew twelve," referring to the raven and the murderers. Despite the princess's deceitful attempts to uncover the answer, the prince outwits her, secures proof of her trickery, and wins her hand.

A kind, hardworking girl jumps into a well and discovers Mother Holle’s magical realm, earning gold through diligence, while her lazy sister fails.

A widow favors her ugly, idle daughter over her pretty, industrious stepdaughter, forcing the latter to toil daily. One day, the stepdaughter drops her shuttle into a well, jumps in to retrieve it, and awakens in a magical meadow. There, she helps enchanted bread and apples before meeting Mother Holle, an old woman who rewards her hard work with a shower of gold. Homesick, she returns home wealthy. Her greedy stepmother sends the lazy daughter to replicate this fortune, but her idleness angers Mother Holle, who covers her in pitch as punishment. The contrasting fates highlight the value of diligence.

A brave girl embarks on a perilous journey to save her seven brothers, cursed into ravens, by unlocking a magical glass mountain.

A young girl, born to a family of seven brothers, learns that her birth indirectly caused her siblings to be cursed into ravens by their father's angry wish. Determined to save them, she sets out on a quest across the world, facing the harsh sun, cold moon, and kind stars, who gift her a drumstick to open the glass mountain where her brothers are trapped. After losing the drumstick, she sacrifices a finger to unlock the mountain. Inside, she meets a dwarf and awaits her brothers, leaving a ring in their glass. When they recognize it, her presence breaks the curse, restoring them to human form, and they return home joyfully.

A young girl, Little Red Riding Hood, encounters a cunning wolf while delivering goods to her grandmother, leading to a dangerous deception.

Little Red Riding Hood, a beloved young girl, is sent by her mother to deliver cake and wine to her sick grandmother, who lives in the woods. On her way, she meets a wolf who tricks her into picking flowers, delaying her journey. Meanwhile, the wolf rushes to the grandmother’s house, devours her, and disguises himself as her to deceive Little Red Riding Hood. Upon arriving, the girl notices odd changes in her "grandmother" and is swallowed by the wolf. A passing huntsman rescues both Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother by cutting open the wolf’s belly. They fill the wolf with stones, leading to his demise, and Little Red Riding Hood learns to never stray from the path again.