The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Pantheon Books) - Jacob Grimm [1]
131. Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie
132. The Fox and the Horse
133. The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces
134. The Six Servants
135. The White Bride and the Black Bride
136. Iron Hans
137. The Three Black Princesses
138. Knoist and his Three Sons
139. The Maid of Brakel
140. My Household
141. The Lambkin and the Little Fish
142. Simeli Mountain
143. Going a Traveling
144. The Donkey
145. The Ungrateful Son
146. The Turnip
147. The Old Man made Young Again
148. The Lord’s Animals and the Devil’s
149. The Beam
150. The Old Beggar-Woman
151. The Three Sluggards
152. The Twelve Idle Servants
153. The Shepherd Boy
154. The Star Money
155. The Stolen Farthings
156. Looking for a Bride
157. The Hurds
158. The Sparrow and his Four Children
159. The Story of Schlauraffen Land
160. The Ditmars Tale of Wonders
161. A Riddling Tale
162. Snow-White and Rose-Red
163. The Wise Servant
164. The Glass Coffin
165. Lazy Harry
166. The Griffin
167. Strong Hans
168. The Peasant in Heaven
169. Lean Lisa
170. The Hut in the Forest
171. Sharing Joy and Sorrow
172. The Willow-Wren
173. The Sole
174. The Bittern and the Hoopoe
175. The Owl
176. The Moon
177. The Duration of Life
178. Death’s Messengers
179. Master Pfriem
180. The Goose-Girl at the Well
181. Eve’s Various Children
182. The Nixie of the Mill-Pond
183. The Little Folks’ Presents
184. The Giant and the Tailor
185. The Nail
186. The Poor Boy in the Grave
187. The True Bride
188. The Hare and the Hedgehog
189. The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle
190. The Peasant and the Devil
191. The Crumbs on the Table
192. The Sea-Hare
193. The Master-Thief
194. The Drummer
195. The Ear of Corn
196. The Grave-Mound
197. Old Rinkrank
198. The Crystal Ball
199. Maid Maleen
200. The Boots of Buffalo Leather
201. The Golden Key
THE CHILDREN’S LEGENDS
202. St. Joseph in the Forest
203. The Twelve Apostles
204. The Rose
205. Poverty and Humility Lead to Heaven
206. God’s Food
207. The Three Green Twigs
208. Our Lady’s Little Glass
209. The Aged Mother
210. The Heavenly Wedding
211. The Hazel-Branch
Folkloristic Commentary by Joseph Campbell
About the Illustrator
INTRODUCTION
IN THE place where the storyteller was the coming of night was marked as it was not in towns nor in modern houses. It was so marked that it created in the mind a different rhythm. There had been a rhythm of the day and now there was a rhythm of the night.… The storyteller seated on a roughly made chair on a clay floor did not look unusually intelligent or sensitive. He certainly did not look histrionic. What was in his face showed that he was ready to respond to and make articulate the rhythm of the night. He was a storyteller because he was attuned to this rhythm and had in his memory the often repeated incidents that would fit it.… These notions were in the present writer’s mind once upon a time when he sat in a cottage where the traditon of storytelling was still in being.
A rhythm that was compulsive, fitted to daily tasks, waned, and a rhythm that was acquiescent, fitted to wishes, took its place. But when the distinction between day and night could be passed over as it could be in towns and in modern houses the change of rhythm that came with the passing of day into night ceased to be marked. This happened when light was prolonged until it was time to turn to sleep.
The prolongation of light meant the cessation of traditional stories in European cottages. And when the cottages took in American kerosene or paraffin there was prolongation. Then came lamps with full and steady light, lamps that gave real illumination. Told under this illumination the traditional stories ceased to be appropriate because the rhythm that gave them meaning was weakened.
Other things happened to put traditional stories out of date. Young people went to schools and learned to read. The world reached into the villages; wars and the doings of congresses interested country people more and more. Claiming attention for the happenings of the day before, the