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Although the Grimms' collection does contain a version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" ("Aschenputtel"), the better known version is based on an earlier story by Creator/CharlesPerrault. "Literature/SleepingBeauty" and "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" also appeared first in Perrault, but the Grimms' versions ("Dornröschen" and "Rotkäppchen") are better known. One of their stories, "Literature/TheSummerAndWinterGarden", is usually referred as "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast", and even though the stories follow the same formula, they begin and end slightly different, and despite popular belief, Brothers Grimm did not write "Beauty and the Beast".
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Although the Grimms' collection does contain a version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" ("Aschenputtel"), the better known version is based on an earlier story by Creator/CharlesPerrault. "Literature/SleepingBeauty" and "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" also appeared first in Perrault, but the Grimms' versions ("Dornröschen" and "Rotkäppchen") are better known. One of their stories, "Literature/TheSummerAndWinterGarden", is usually referred as "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast", and even though the stories follow the same formula, they begin and end slightly different, and despite popular belief, Brothers Grimm did not write "Beauty and the Beast".
Beast". It is worth mentioning that the Grimms, as mentioned above, mainly collected their material from middle- and upper-class friends. Those often had ties to other countries and cultures. Several of them were in fact of French ancestry (i.e. Marie Hassenpflug and Dorothea Viehmann), thus the "German" tales collected were not always necessarily of German origin.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGirlWithoutHands'' (''Das Mädchen ohne Hände'')
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* "Literature/SweetPorridge" (''Der süße Brei'')
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* BagOfHolding: In "All-Kinds-of-Fur" ([[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm065.html link]]), the princess can store her three [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes beautiful dresses]] in a nutshell.
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* KickedOutOfHeaven: One fairy tale concerned a gambling addict named ''Die Spielhans'' (''Game Hans''), who is so addicted that he is refused entry in Heaven. He is allowed in Hell, but there he creates so much havoc by winning every gambling game that he is eventually thrown out of there as well, causing his soul to crack and have the pieces fly into all the gambling addicts alive today.
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*"Literature/GamblingHansel" (''De Spielhansl'')
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* TooDumbToLive: In ''[[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm119.html The Seven Swabians]]'' the titular seven Swabians go out in search of adventure and glory, but are so stupid and incompetent that they can't even deal with a foe that doesn't even fight back -- the bulk of the story has them trying and failing to charge a sleeping hare, while thinking it's a great monster. The story ends with all seven of them trying to wade over a deep river and drowning. [[SparedByTheAdaptation Some retellings of the story have them survive because a fisherman comes to help them, whereupon they all decide to give up adventuring and return home, where it's dry.]]
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* "Literature/TheTableTheDonkeyAndTheStick" (German: ''Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack'')
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* "Literature/StJosephInTheForest" (''Der heilige Joseph im Walde'')
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* EvilMentor: In ''[[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Thief_and_his_Master.html#gsc.tab=0 The Thief and His Master,]]'' the father only has to pay if he can't recognize his son, but the master uses magic to prevent him. And when the father succeeds, he tries to reclaim the boy.
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* EvilMentor: In ''[[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Thief_and_his_Master.html#gsc.tab=0 The Thief and His Master,]]'' Master]]'', the father only has to pay if he can't recognize his son, but the master uses magic to prevent him. And when the father succeeds, he tries to reclaim the boy.
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* ImpossibleTheft: In "Literature/{{The Master Thief|The Brothers Grimm}}" ([[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/the_master-thief link]]), the Count challenges the main character to carry out several extraordinarly hard robberies: "Well, then, in the first place, thou shalt steal the horse I keep for my own riding, out of the stable; in the next, thou shalt steal the sheet from beneath the bodies of my wife and myself when we are asleep, without our observing it, and the wedding-ring of my wife as well; thirdly and lastly, thou shalt steal away out of the church, the parson and clerk. Mark what I am saying, for thy life depends on it." The master thief manages to steal all of them.
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* LiminalTime: In some tales, the heroine is particularly vulnerable to an abduction and substitution at two in-between states: a BrideAndSwitch when she's going to her wedding, such as in "Literature/TheWhiteBrideAndTheBlackOne" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110185918/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/135whiteblackbride.html link]])'' and "Literature/TheGooseGirl"; and when she has first given birth, transitioning between childlessness and maternity, as in "Literature/BrotherAndSister".
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* SuddenDownerEnding: While it's traditionally given the more upbeat translation "They all lived HappilyEverAfter", the original phrase at the end of many of the tales would be more accurately translated, "And they all lived happily [[WeAllDieSomeday until they died]]."
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* "Literature/TheGoldenBird" (''Der goldene Vogel'')
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* TheLostWoods: Woodlands are often home to dangerous and hostile creatures like "Hansel and Gretel"'s witch or "The Drummer"'s giants.
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* EatsBabies: In "The Evil Mother-in-Law", which is more or less identical to the second part of Perrault's "Sleeping Beauty", the eponymous mother-in-law attempts to eat the heroine's children.
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** In "[[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm065.html All-Kinds-of-Fur All-Kinds-of-Fur]]", the princess has to flee her [[ParentalIncest father who wants to marry her]] and go into service as a SculleryMaid.
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** In "[[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm065.html All-Kinds-of-Fur All-Kinds-of-Fur]]", the princess has to flee her [[ParentalIncest father who wants to marry her]] and go into service as a SculleryMaid.
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** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122173859/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was,]]'' staying in the house three nights wins him treasure as well as the king's reward.
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** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122173859/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was,]]'' "Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas" staying in the house haunted castle three nights wins him the youth treasure as well as the king's reward.
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* MercifulMinion: In "[[https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html The Girl Without Hands]]", in the first edition the mother-in-law's servants spare her when the mother-in-law orders her taken to the forest and killed; in the second and later ones, the mother-in-law receives the letter ordering her death and sends her away to avoid it.
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* AntagonistTitle: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs]]", the main character must get three hairs from the head of the Devil. "The Robber Bridegroom" and "Fitcher's Bird" are named after a serial killer.
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* AntagonistTitle: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", the main character must get three hairs from the head of the Devil. "The Robber Bridegroom" and "Fitcher's Bird" are named after a serial killer.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191208004150/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a king who discovers finds his daughter [[SelfFulfillingProphecy doomed]] to marry a poor man tries to kill him with many tasks, before and after the wedding; in the end, he fails.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191208004150/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", a king who discovers finds his daughter [[SelfFulfillingProphecy doomed]] to marry a poor man tries to kill him with many tasks, before and after the wedding; in the end, he fails.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs]]" has the protagonist overhear the devil give the solutions to the three problems he encountered on his journey there, in his sleep.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs]]" "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs" has the protagonist overhear the devil give the solutions to the three problems he encountered on his journey there, in his sleep.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does.
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** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does -- largely as a result of the king's attempts to prevent it.
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** "Literature/HanselAndGretel" return home with money.
--->''And as they had no longer any cause for fear, they went in the old hag's house, and here they found, in every corner of the room, boxes with pearls and precious stones. "These are even better than pebbles," said Hansel, and crammed his pockets full of them; and Gretel said: "I too will bring something home," and she filled her apron full.''
** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20170311110520/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/189peasantdevil.html The Peasant and the Devil,]]'' the peasant outwits the devil to lay claim to treasure in his field without giving anything for it.
** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122173859/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was,]]'' staying in the house three nights wins him treasure as well as the king's reward.
--->''The old man led him back into the castle, and in a cellar showed him three chests full of gold. "Of these," said he, "one part is for the poor, the other for the king, the third is thine."''
** In "Literature/TheStarMoney", the girl becomes "rich for her whole life" after gathering the eponymous talers.
** "Literature/HanselAndGretel" return home with money.
--->''And as they had no longer any cause for fear, they went in the old hag's house, and here they found, in every corner of the room, boxes with pearls and precious stones. "These are even better than pebbles," said Hansel, and crammed his pockets full of them; and Gretel said: "I too will bring something home," and she filled her apron full.''
** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20170311110520/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/189peasantdevil.html The Peasant and the Devil,]]'' the peasant outwits the devil to lay claim to treasure in his field without giving anything for it.
** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122173859/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was,]]'' staying in the house three nights wins him treasure as well as the king's reward.
--->''The old man led him back into the castle, and in a cellar showed him three chests full of gold. "Of these," said he, "one part is for the poor, the other for the king, the third is thine."''
** In "Literature/TheStarMoney", the girl becomes "rich for her whole life" after gathering the eponymous talers.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does -- largely as a result of the king's attempts to prevent it.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: SelfFulfillingProphecy:
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does -- largely as a result of the king's attempts to preventit.it.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20060104232104/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/115brightsunbrings.html The Bright Sun Brings It to Light]]", a tailor's apprentice in need of money robs and murders a poor Jew who prophesies with his last breath that the apprentice won't get away with it because "the bright sun will bring [the crime] to light." Years pass and the apprentice eventually finds work, marries his boss' daughter and starts a family. One day, he notices the sun shining on his coffee and the reflection making circles on the walls and mutters "yes, it would like very much to bring it to light, and cannot!" His wife asks him what he means by this and pesters him until he admits his crime to her. She confides the secret to someone else and it soon becomes public knowledge. "And thus, after all, the bright sun did bring it to light."
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110190119/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]]", a poor boy is foretold to be married to a princess, and does -- largely as a result of the king's attempts to prevent
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20060104232104/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/115brightsunbrings.html The Bright Sun Brings It to Light]]", a tailor's apprentice in need of money robs and murders a poor Jew who prophesies with his last breath that the apprentice won't get away with it because "the bright sun will bring [the crime] to light." Years pass and the apprentice eventually finds work, marries his boss' daughter and starts a family. One day, he notices the sun shining on his coffee and the reflection making circles on the walls and mutters "yes, it would like very much to bring it to light, and cannot!" His wife asks him what he means by this and pesters him until he admits his crime to her. She confides the secret to someone else and it soon becomes public knowledge. "And thus, after all, the bright sun did bring it to light."
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Literature/SnowWhiteFireRed" and "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200114194258/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/186truesweetheart.html The True Sweetheart]]", the hero is magically forced to forget the heroine.
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* KickedOutOfHeaven: One fairy tale concerned a gambling addict named ''Die Spielhans'' (''Game Hans''), who is so addicted that he is refused entry in Heaven. He is allowed in Hell, but there he creates so much havoc by winning every gambling game that he is eventually thrown out of there as well, causing his soul to crack and have the pieces fly into all the gambling addicts alive today.
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Although the Grimms' collection does contain a version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" ("Aschenputtel"), the better known version is based on an earlier story by Creator/CharlesPerrault. "Literature/SleepingBeauty" and "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" also appeared first in Perrault, but the Grimms' versions ("Dornröschen" and "Rotkäppchen") are better known. And despite popular belief, "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" has nothing to do with them at all.
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Although the Grimms' collection does contain a version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" ("Aschenputtel"), the better known version is based on an earlier story by Creator/CharlesPerrault. "Literature/SleepingBeauty" and "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" also appeared first in Perrault, but the Grimms' versions ("Dornröschen" and "Rotkäppchen") are better known. And One of their stories, "Literature/TheSummerAndWinterGarden", is usually referred as "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast", and even though the stories follow the same formula, they begin and end slightly different, and despite popular belief, "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" has nothing to do with them at all.
Brothers Grimm did not write "Beauty and the Beast".
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** In "[[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Three_Little_Birds.html#gsc.tab=0 The Three Little Birds]]", two brothers tell a fishing woman that she won't catch fish where she is, and end up failing their quests; then, their sister tells her "May God help you with your fishing," and receives a magic wand and advice.
** In another tale, some kids have watched the adults slaughter a pig, think this is worth imitating, and slaughter a younger kid. All the adults are upset, of course, but they can't agree whether the kid is really guilty or not. Then, one wise man comes up with a solution: He offers two gifts to the kid, an apple and a golden coin, and tells the kid to choose one of them. The kid immediately takes the apple, and he explains: The kid is still naive, and thus innocent; but if the kid had taken the coin instead, this would have proved the guilt, since the kid must have had enough experience with the world to know that killing is wrong.
** In "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1451.html Choosing a Bride/The Cheese Test]]", a young man goes courting and meets three girls of appropriate age and social status, and is unable to choose between them. His mother suggests to serve each cheese with the rind still on, and watch how they eat it. The first girl eats the cheese [[ExtremeOmnivore rind and all]], revealing that she is gluttonous and lazy. The second girl takes a knife and chops off the rind, but also a lot of the good cheese, revealing that she is wasteful and careless. The third trims off the rind without wasting any cheese, proving that she is attentive and hardworking.
** In "[[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Three_Little_Birds.html#gsc.tab=0 The Three Little Birds]]", two brothers tell a fishing woman that she won't catch fish where she is, and end up failing their quests; then, their sister tells her "May God help you with your fishing," and receives a magic wand and advice.
** In another tale, some kids have watched the adults slaughter a pig, think this is worth imitating, and slaughter a younger kid. All the adults are upset, of course, but they can't agree whether the kid is really guilty or not. Then, one wise man comes up with a solution: He offers two gifts to the kid, an apple and a golden coin, and tells the kid to choose one of them. The kid immediately takes the apple, and he explains: The kid is still naive, and thus innocent; but if the kid had taken the coin instead, this would have proved the guilt, since the kid must have had enough experience with the world to know that killing is wrong.
** In "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1451.html Choosing a Bride/The Cheese Test]]", a young man goes courting and meets three girls of appropriate age and social status, and is unable to choose between them. His mother suggests to serve each cheese with the rind still on, and watch how they eat it. The first girl eats the cheese [[ExtremeOmnivore rind and all]], revealing that she is gluttonous and lazy. The second girl takes a knife and chops off the rind, but also a lot of the good cheese, revealing that she is wasteful and careless. The third trims off the rind without wasting any cheese, proving that she is attentive and hardworking.
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* OldBeggarTest: In "Literature/TheStarMoney" (German: ''Die Sterntaler''), an unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into the countryside to see what might happen. She gives a hungry man her bread, and to three cold children she gives her cap, her jacket, and her dress. In a forest, she sees a naked child begging for a shift, and since it was dark and she cannot be seen, she gives her own shift away. As she stands with nothing left at all, suddenly stars fall to earth before her, becoming talers, and she finds herself wearing a different shift of the finest linen. The story ends with her being rich.
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* OldBeggarTest: OldBeggarTest:
** In"Literature/TheStarMoney" (German: ''Die Sterntaler''), "Literature/SnowWhite" the Evil Queen invokes the fact that Snow White's good nature would make her an obvious candidate to pass the test and so disguises herself as a beggar woman so that she will not be questioned, giving Snow White a poison apple.
** In "Literature/TheStarMoney", an unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into the countryside to see what might happen. She gives a hungry man her bread, and to three cold children she gives her cap, her jacket, and her dress. In a forest, she sees a naked child begging for a shift, and since it was dark and she cannot be seen, she gives her own shift away. As she stands with nothing left at all, suddenly stars fall to earth before her, becoming talers, and she finds herself wearing a different shift of the finest linen. The story ends with her beingrich.rich.
** Dummling in "Literature/TheGoldenGoose" shares his humble lunch with a hermit, after his two older brothers snubbed the same hermit and suffered nasty wood-cutting accidents. Not only does the hermit turn the hero's dry bread and water into cakes and wine as a sign of gratitude, but he tells him where to find the eponymous golden goose.
** In "Literature/TheWaterOfLife" ([[https://fairytalez.com/the-water-of-life/ here]]), the king's two older sons are rude to the dwarf when he asks what they are doing, and are magically trapped; the youngest is polite, and is told how to get what he's after.
** In "Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses", the hero generally has to have done some good for the old woman to get the knowledge how to save the princesses.
** In "Literature/TheThreeLittleBirds" ([[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Three_Little_Birds.html#gsc.tab=0 here]]), two brothers in turn encounter an old woman on their quests and tell her she will have no luck fishing where she is. Their sister follows them and tells her, "May God bless your fishing," and so learns how to complete the quest and save her brothers.
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** In "Literature/TheStarMoney", an unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into the countryside to see what might happen. She gives a hungry man her bread, and to three cold children she gives her cap, her jacket, and her dress. In a forest, she sees a naked child begging for a shift, and since it was dark and she cannot be seen, she gives her own shift away. As she stands with nothing left at all, suddenly stars fall to earth before her, becoming talers, and she finds herself wearing a different shift of the finest linen. The story ends with her being
** Dummling in "Literature/TheGoldenGoose" shares his humble lunch with a hermit, after his two older brothers snubbed the same hermit and suffered nasty wood-cutting accidents. Not only does the hermit turn the hero's dry bread and water into cakes and wine as a sign of gratitude, but he tells him where to find the eponymous golden goose.
** In "Literature/TheWaterOfLife" ([[https://fairytalez.com/the-water-of-life/ here]]), the king's two older sons are rude to the dwarf when he asks what they are doing, and are magically trapped; the youngest is polite, and is told how to get what he's after.
** In "Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses", the hero generally has to have done some good for the old woman to get the knowledge how to save the princesses.
** In "Literature/TheThreeLittleBirds" ([[https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Three_Little_Birds.html#gsc.tab=0 here]]), two brothers in turn encounter an old woman on their quests and tell her she will have no luck fishing where she is. Their sister follows them and tells her, "May God bless your fishing," and so learns how to complete the quest and save her brothers.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** In "Literature/{{Bearskin}}", the youngest daughter agrees to marry the frightful-looking hero because only a good man would have paid off a total stranger's debts.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200221220738/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com:80/authors/grimms/57goldenbird.html The Golden Bird]]", the prince who brings back the golden bird for his father also brings back a princess; when his brothers try to kill him and threaten her, she does not stop grieving until the prince returns alive.
** In "Literature/{{Bearskin}}", the youngest daughter agrees to marry the frightful-looking hero because only a good man would have paid off a total stranger's debts.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200221220738/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com:80/authors/grimms/57goldenbird.html The Golden Bird]]", the prince who brings back the golden bird for his father also brings back a princess; when his brothers try to kill him and threaten her, she does not stop grieving until the prince returns alive.
