Grimm
Brothers' tale collection
Grimm refers to the Brothers Grimm—Jacob and Wilhelm, German scholars who collected and published folk tales in the early 19th century.
Their anthology, commonly called Grimm's Fairy Tales, includes stories like Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Rapunzel.
The name often modifies tale or fairy tale to evoke dark, folkloric storytelling: The movie has a Grimm quality to it.
Under magical influence
- witchesPractitioners of dark magic
- wolvesWild pack canines
- castlesFortified royal residences
- princesMale royal family members
princesses · forests · magic · spells · Cinderella · Rapunzel · Hansel · Gretel
Collected literary works volume
- collectionGathered set of items
- adaptationsChanges to fit conditions
- DisneyMajor entertainment conglomerate
- retellingsNarratives rendered anew
editions · illustrated · translations · classics · canon · influence · literature · children's
Male given name
- WilhelmGerman masculine royal name
- siblingsFellow offspring
- duoTwo working together
- linguistsScholars of language structure
scholars · collectors · compilers · academics · philologists · dictionary · collaboration · nineteenth-century
Traditional oral narratives
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- mythsTraditional untrue narratives
- fablesDidactic animal stories
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
peasants · morals · cautionary · tales · nursery · lore · superstitions · customs
Of ancient German peoples
- GermanCentral European language
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- languageSystem of symbolic communication
- philologyStudy of historical texts
medieval · etymology · linguistics · grammar · Rhineland · Hessian
Suggesting something bad approaches
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- violentInvolving physical force
cannibalism · dismemberment · punishment · death · cruelty · horror · disturbing · nightmarish
enchanted
Under magical influence
princes · princesses · forests · magic · spells · Cinderella · Rapunzel · Hansel · Gretel · Rumpelstiltskin
anthology
Collected literary works volume
- collectionGathered set of items
- adaptationsChanges to fit conditions
- DisneyMajor entertainment conglomerate
retellings · editions · illustrated · translations · classics · canon · influence · literature · children's · enduring
Jacob
Male given name
linguists · scholars · collectors · compilers · academics · philologists · dictionary · collaboration · nineteenth-century · German
folktales
Traditional oral narratives
storytelling · peasants · morals · cautionary · tales · nursery · lore · superstitions · customs · traditions
Teutonic
Of ancient German peoples
- GermanCentral European language
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- languageSystem of symbolic communication
philology · medieval · etymology · linguistics · grammar · Rhineland · Hessian
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
violent · cannibalism · dismemberment · punishment · death · cruelty · horror · disturbing · nightmarish · cautionary
- German AuthorsGoethe, Thomas Mann, Mann, Franz Kafka, Kafka
- Volga German ColoniesFrank, Kraft, Anton, Louis, Merkel
- GermanGermany, Austria, Switzerland, German, Berlin
- German cultureOktoberfest, Bavaria, Bavarian, Berlin, Munich
- Literary traditionsmythology, folklore, fairy tales, fables, legends
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
Andersen · Charles Perrault · Disney · Mother Goose · Aesop
GrimmDisney
Major entertainment conglomerate
Disneyfied · sanitized · bowdlerized · whimsical · lighthearted
GrimmChomsky
- Grim ReaperSkeletal embodiment of mortality
- grim realityUnpleasant facts of life
- Brothers GrimmGerman folklorists, sibling scholars
- Grimm BrothersGerman folklore-collecting siblings
- grim expression
- Grimm talesGerman folklore anthology