Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Crane), Part B

Bibliography: "The Three Spinsters" from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm translated by Lucy Crane. Story Source.

Notes

  • I like this story, it has Rumpelstiltskin vibes
  • but the girl actually keeps her word
  • which is nice
  • and sure, she was lazy, but that can easily be rewritten as her just not knowing how to use a spinning wheel
  • the spinsters are mvps and also probably fairies 
  • because come on
  • that's some fairy nonsense 
  • hehehehe wingmen 
(Image Information: The Three Spinsters illustration by Robert Bell (1912); Wikimedia Commons)

-A.

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