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.
The Old Woman in the Wood (1812) - A poor-servant girl, alone in the woods
after the family she served is murdered, is helped by a white dove who asks
a favor in return: the girl must retrieve a ring from an old woman's house.
