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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    commingles, and hence equates "dark-elves" and "black-elves" from the outset. Jacob Grimm surmised that the proto-elf (ursprünglich) was probably a "light-colored...
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    f. WA TR 4: 358, No. 4513 Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: Deutsche Sagen. Hamburg 2014, pp. 126 f. Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: Deutsche Sagen. Hamburg 2014...
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