Bearskin E-book
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Genre: Children Stories, Literature
Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German philologists whose
collection "Kinder- und Hausmarchen," known in English as "Grimm's Fairy
Tales," is a timeless literary masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these
tales directly from folk and fairy stories told to them by common villagers.
Bearskin (1812) - A brave soldier, relieved of his duties at the end of the
war, meets the Devil in the woods. The Devil promises him riches if he will
go about for seven years without bathing, dressed in a bearskin.
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