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Day 6- #AGrimmADay : Faithful John - a weird one... a king has a faithful servant & on his deathbed tells him to keep a portrait of a princess locked up when his son becomes king. The new king demands to see the locked room and finds the princess of the Golden Dwelling. He immediately falls in love but will die if he tries to find her. He persists and snatches her. John heard ravens talking about what happens when they land and get off the boat ⬇️

I've been struggling to focus on anything for the last 2 weeks and I feel miserable starting a thread I can't keep up with. Hoping for a clear head and better response from me for #AGrimmADay. Who thought it would be so difficult to read fairy tales! Enjoy this camelia photo taken at my favorite arboretum several weeks ago. Thanks for sticking around. 💜

#AGrimmADay Day 5: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids - A goat goes to fetch food and leaves her kids home with a warning about the wolf who will eat them. The wolf tricks the kids, breaks in and eats all the kids but one. The mother and the kid find the wolf asleep in the field, then they cut out the kids and replaced them with stones. He wakes up thirsty & falls down a well and dies. A familiar story I've heard before. 👍

#AGrimmADay Day 4: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was - A bone headed kid wants to learn to shudder because nothing scares him. His father sends him away after he broke a sexton's leg by pushing him down the stairs as the sexton tried to scare him. He is told to spend the night with men on the gallows. He tries to warm them up instead. He's told to spend 3 nights in a haunted castle and isn't scared by the black cats, ⬇️

Day 3 - Our Lady's Child: A poor wood-cutter meets the Blessed Mother in the woods who offers to take his child and raise her in Heaven. The child turns 14 and is given 13 keys. Mary tells her she can use 12 but not the last otherwise it will lead to great unhappiness. She does and it does, lol. She grows up in the woods, unable to speak, until a king finds her and marries her. More below: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #AGrimmADay

Day 2: A cat values the friendship of a trusting mouse so much that they decide to help each other in preparing for winter. They save a pot of fat which the cat decides to sneak off and eat. When winter comes, there's no fat left and as the mouse is realizing it, the cat eats her. A leopard and it's spots, so to speak. #AGrimmADay

Day 1: A princess loses her golden ball & promises a frog that he can be her companion if he retrieves it. She's a brat, of course, and runs away without him. The king is angry that she doesn't keep her word. The frog asks to sleep in her bed and she's mad about it. He says he'll tell the king and she throws him at the wall! That causes him to turn back into a prince and the next day they go to his castle. Iron Henry in the comments: #AGrimmADay

I've had this one probably since high school & I've read a handful of stories here and there. I think I'd like to do a series of posts about each story rather than review the book after reading the whole thing. #AGrimmADay 🤷‍♀️