TRIVIA BITS ...
BROTHERS GRIM
In looking at the 200 fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, a rough scoring of the male and female characters are revealing.
There are 16 wicked mothers or step-mothers and only 3 wicked fathers or step-fathers.
There are 23 evil female witches and only 2 evil male witches.
There are 13 young women who kill or endanger the men who love them, but only one man who harms his bride.
Handmade oil painting reproduction of Illustration from
The Nose Tree from Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1900,
a painting by Arthur Rackham.
Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. Kay Nielsen, illustrator.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925.
Cover of the 34th Edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales pub 1886
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