The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, “You tame pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:

The good ones go into the pot, 
The bad ones go into your crop.

Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed before they were finished, and they all flew out again.

The girl took the bowl to her stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to the festival with them.

But the stepmother said, “No, Cinderella, you have no clothes, and you don’t know how to dance. Everyone would only laugh at you.”

Cinderella began to cry, and then the stepmother said, “You may go if you are able to pick two bowls of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour.”

Thinking to herself, “She will never be able to do that.”

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-aschenputtel: cinderella

-Brothers Grimm. 

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little riding hood of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’

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-rotkappchen: red riding hood.

-Brothers Grimm.

note: red riding hood is actually more disturbing than foretold. As the wolf actually eats the grandmother and red riding hood before the lumberjack comes and rescuses them. In some cases, the wolf locks the grandmother in a closet, but I enjoy the Brothers Grmm verisons of many fairy tales better. 

Having a slight obsession over the disturbing true fairy tales, as when I was younger it was always ‘and they lived happily ever after..’ 

on another note: reason why all the titles are in German, is because both of the Grimm brothers were German, and that’s where most fairy tales originated from, or in Europe in general. 

Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony.

And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow.

And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself: would that be me that would have a child as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as the wood of the window-frame?

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-schneewittchen: snow white.

-Brothers Grimm. 

note: the real story of snow white isn’t as light hearted as you may think it is. it’s actually depressing and more mature.