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world and appear to the protagonists before any intercession can take place. Moreover, these beings are almost always anonymous and therefore difficult to correlate with figures in pre-Christian mythology. By contrast, Frau Holle resides somewhere above the Earth, and the protagonists must go to her, paradoxically by diving into a spring. When she makes her bed, loose feathers are 'stirred up' and fall to earth as snow, and so this fairy tale is an origin myth as well. Comparison between Frau Holle and a weather or earth goddess is inevitable. Jakob Grimm notes that Thunar (
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Her mother wished the same good fortune for her biological daughter. She also set her to sit by the well and spin, but the girl deliberately threw the spindle into the well before jumping in herself. She too came to the oven, but would not assist the bread nor would she help the apple tree. When she
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white-robed female spirit. She was known as a goddess who oversaw spinning and weaving, like myths of Holda in
Continental German regions. He believes she was the feminine equivalent of Berchtold, and she was sometimes the leader of the wild hunt.
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be harvested. So she did so and gathered them into a pile before continuing on her way. Finally, she came to a small house of an old woman, who offered to allow the girl to stay if she would help with the housework.
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1478:and selections from related documents
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4083:Witchcraft in folklore and mythology
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1878:. George Bell, London 1882, pp 263f.
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368:assimilated into Christian tradition
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1832:Sagen-Buch von Böhmen und MÀhren
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1039:The Three Little Men in the Wood
345:) and one from Beetgum, Frisia (
287:("faithful, dedicated, loyal"),
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3548:The King of the Golden Mountain
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1758:. Berlin/New York 2000 p. 261.
1691:. Berlin/New York 2000 p. 262.
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169:Children's and Household Tales
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3800:The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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1528:10.1080/0015587X.1984.9716309
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1404:. London: Hutchinson Radius.
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1009:The Kind and the Unkind Girls
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772:Spin, little children, spin,
3350:Cat and Mouse in Partnership
2290:Companions of Saint Nicholas
1168:Children's literature portal
1060:. Literary variants include
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831:= tomcat), the Satzemziege (
769:Spinnt, Kinderlein, spinnt,
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3674:The Singing, Springing Lark
3395:The Elves and the Shoemaker
3152:Hirschsprung (Black Forest)
2074:Indogermanische Forschungen
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1027:The Three Heads in the Well
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416:(Dark Grandmother) and the
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3888:Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
3476:The Goose-Girl at the Well
3413:The Four Skillful Brothers
3404:The Fisherman and His Wife
3124:VolksmÀrchen der Deutschen
2959:Peter Nikoll (Black Peter)
1948:Grimm's Teutonic Mythology
1560:Golther, Wolfgang (1895).
719:, Christmas or during the
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409:in the Early Middle Ages.
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1808:. Paderborn 2011, p. 27.
1243:University of Pittsburgh
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777:De Spellalutsche kemmt;
685:formerly German-speaking
425:Twelve Days of Christmas
358:Origins and attestations
3948:German Fairy Tale Route
3719:Snow-White and Rose-Red
3386:The Dog and the Sparrow
3332:The Brave Little Tailor
3102:Legends and fairy tales
2910:Kunigunde von OrlamĂŒnde
2868:Heinrich von Winkelried
2023:Josef Virgil Grohmann:
1830:Josef Virgil Grohmann:
878:Kinder- und HausmÀrchen
747:Die Spillagritte kommt!
236:Friedrich Wilhelm Heine
3940:American McGee's Grimm
3836:The Wonderful Musician
3566:Little Red Riding Hood
2987:RĂŒdiger von Bechelaren
2770:Eppelein von Gailingen
1863:. Munich 1993, p. 264.
1640:Bartsch, Karl (1879).
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2966:Pied Piper of Hamelin
2812:Götz von Berlichingen
2728:Arnold von Winkelried
1942:Grimm, Jacob (1835).
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2924:Matthias Klostermayr
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2798:Genevieve of Brabant
2784:Frederick Barbarossa
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1648:Also available from
1475:libri poenitentiales
1286:The German Quarterly
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1098:(1954), West Germany
1090:(1953), East Germany
1045:The Enchanted Wreath
427:were originally the
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3791:The Twelve Brothers
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2006:Sagen aus Schlesien
1944:Deutsche Mythologie
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2094:The full text of
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2037:978-1-4849-7919-8
2018:978-3-8460-0190-5
1980:Schlesische Sagen
1971:978-3-11-016860-0
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1861:Schlesische Sagen
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