The best story in the #Grimm collection is still the one where a miller marries an earth spirit and ends up with a magical mill, but his son wants to study magic, so he spreads the word that the mill is cursed and defends it with various traps, but people still keep bothering him because the mill makes amazing flour, and eventually a girl with an emotional support beaver shows up and the miller's son is like sure fine whatever here is a bunch of gemstones leave me alone.
Also the miller and the earth spirit are both referred to as male fyi. So the grumpy wizard miller and his two dads live in an enchanted mill full of gemstone flowers and I am here for that.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Is there a link to the longer version? This sounds hilarious.
@szakib It's called Murmeltier and it's a garbled version of a longer French fairy tale they accidentally collected. Here:
https://www.amazon.com/1810-Grimm-Manuscripts-Translation-Handwritten/dp/1516907027
@TarkabarkaHolgy Hah! I recently bought a copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales, and haven't found that one yet
@bytebro depends on which edition, I don't think this one was included after the first one
Well yes, I never heard of this one.
And most of Grimm’s collection are actually French, because their main source was Hugenot.
I now to read more of it and find out! This one is an English translation, obvs, and the 'front' page just says:
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First published 1884
Reprint 2024
Fingerprint Classics
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...who are allegedly based in New Delhi. Wow.