Happy Birthday, Jacob Grimm

[filkertom]

On this date in 1785. He became famous for being transformed by cosmic rays into the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed...






... Sorry. Wrong guy. This Grimm, and his brother Wilhelm, collected Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Different approach from normal: What fairy tales bug you the most? For me, trying to describe the plot of Rumplestiltskin is like trying to describe the plot of The Rocky Horror Show. It makes absolutely no frickin' sense at all.

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[kenalepha.livejournal.com]

I spent about 2 1/2 years in Hanau Germany and even spent one memorable New Years Night on the statue of Fritz and Wilhelm Grimm in the Frihaltsplatz. Nothing like being blitzed to the gills on German beer and throwing half sticks (firecrackers bought from an enterprizing Turk in a Trinkhalle) from the lap of whichever one is sitting. Did not in fact remember if the two changed places during the night (that was the rumor we were supposd to be confirming) but as I look back on it now, I wonder why the Politzai did not come and arrest us.

I agree that their tales were dark and forboding things and I have wondered if the word grim was a corruption of their last name. I have also heard that Little Red Riding Hood was an allegory of the grandmother being a Werewolf. Also that one of the others was a Vampire story (kissing the blood from the rose picked fingers was the description but I don't remember which story that was from)

[kenalepha.livejournal.com]

Sorry- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.