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    Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist...
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    The Brothers Grimm (German: die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected...
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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the...
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  • The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a founding member of the Fantastic...
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    abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first...
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    Ēostre (section Jacob Grimm)
    the foundation of Germanic philology in the 19th century by scholar Jacob Grimm and others. As the Germanic languages descend from Proto-Indo-European...
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  • Look up Grimm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grimm may refer to: Grimm (surname) Brothers Grimm, German linguists Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German...
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  • Studio. Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, the series was released worldwide on Netflix on April 17, 2024. Jacob Grimm Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki...
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    Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer; November 20, 1755 – May 27, 1808) was the mother to the "Brothers Grimm" Jacob and Wilhelm, and seven other children, including...
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    org/lore/grimmst/017_12.php Archived 2004-01-01 at the Wayback Machine [DWB] Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. Deutsches Wörterbuch (German Dictionary). Available online...
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    female figures of Germanic folklore (see Frija-Frigg). According to Jacob Grimm and Lotte Motz, Perchta is Holda's southern cousin or equivalent, as...
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    Weidmann's Publishing House in Leipzig repeatedly approached Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm with a proposal for a large new dictionary, spanning German vocabulary...
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  • BC, first discovered by Rasmus Rask but systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm. It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic...
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    gift-bringer, threatening to thrash or abduct disobedient children. Jacob Grimm (in Deutsche Mythologie) associated this character with the pre-Christian...
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    gift-bringer, threatening to thrash or abduct disobedient children. Jacob Grimm (Deutsche Mythologie) associated this character with the pre-Christian...
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    Rapunzel (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
    University of Pittsburgh. Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm (1941). Moritz, Paul (ed.). Bruder Grimm Kindermärchen (Brothers Grimm Children's Fairy Tales)....
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  • Prosperity declines, happiness passes away / and covenants are broken." Jacob Grimm in his 1835 Teutonic Mythology (ch. 9) attached a deeper significance...
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    Wild Hunt (category Brothers Grimm)
    The concept was developed by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie (1835) on the basis of comparative mythology. Grimm believed that a group of stories...
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    Christians who had a tendency to personify feast and fast days while Jacob Grimm found it not credible that two separate cultures would personify a feast...
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    The spells became famous in modern times through the appreciation of Jacob Grimm, who wrote as follows: Lying between Leipzig, Halle and Jena, the extensive...
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    diminutive Schrätlein also serves as synonym for a nightmare creature. Jacob Grimm believed that Gothic skōhsl, used to translate Koine Greek δαιμόνιον...
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    and female equivalent of Berchtold proposed by Jacob Grimm Holda, a purported deity proposed by Jacob Grimm Jecha, a purported deity potentially stemming...
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  • ISBN 978-3-937715-38-4. Jacob Grimm: Deutsche Mythologie: Vollständige Ausgabe. Marix-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-143-8. Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm: Deutsche...
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    bald 'brave, courageous'). This etymology was originally proposed by Jacob Grimm (1835), who also speculated on a comparison with the Lithuanian báltas...
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    Germany, in 1790. His brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were folklorists, famously known as the Brothers Grimm. Grimm's studies began at the Kunsthochschule...
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  • reads, "I also hear it said that kin-blood is not spoiled by water." Jacob Grimm suggests that this saying, which is not read anywhere else, means that...
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    unbaptized. The Grimms (Deutsche Sagen) also seconded the notion of "kobold" appearing as a child wearing a pretty jacket, but Jacob Grimm (Deutsche Mythologie)...
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    p. 17. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, 4th ed. tr. James Steven Stallybrass, vol. 1, London: Bell, 1882, p. 381 calls him Hemming Wolf. Grimm, p. 382...
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    Little Red Riding Hood (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
    separate German versions were retold to Jacob Grimm and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, the first by Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860)...
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    Snow White (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
    the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, numbered as Tale 53. The...
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