Many of the Brothers Grimm stories are gruesome tales of gore and violence. Unlike today's children's stories they are outrageously savage, but then, they were not meant for children.
The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm?
Co-ordinated to Aarne's index then were published a series of special catalogues for a number of folk traditions: Finnish, Estho- nian, Finnish-Swedish, Flemish, Norwegian, Lapp, Livonian, Ruma- nian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Spanish, ...
A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legends collected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.
The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm.