Grimm's Fairy Tales (Illustrated) (112 page)

The Heavenly Wedding
 

A poor peasant-boy one day heard the priest say in church that whosoever desired to enter into the kingdom of heaven must always go straight onward. So he set out, and walked continually straight onwards over hill and valley without ever turning aside. At length his way led him into a great town, and into the midst of a church, where just at that time God's service was being performed. Now when he beheld all the magnificence of this, he thought he had reached heaven, sat down, and rejoiced with his whole heart. When the service was over, and the clerk bade him go out, he replied, "No, I will not go out again, I am glad to be in heaven at last." So the clerk went to the priest, and told him that there was a child in the church who would not go out again, because he believed he was in heaven. The priest said, "If he believes that, we will leave him inside." So he went to him, and asked if he had any inclination to work. "Yes," the little fellow replied, "I am accustomed to work, but I will not go out of heaven again." So he stayed in the church, and when he saw how the people came and knelt and prayed to Our Lady with the blessed child Jesus which was carved in wood, he thought "that is the good God," and said, "Dear God, how thin you are! The people must certainly let you starve; but every day I will give you half my dinner." From this time forth, he every day took half his dinner to the image, and the image began to enjoy the food. When a few weeks had gone by, people remarked that the image was growing larger and stout and strong, and wondered much. The priest also could not understand it, but stayed in the church, and followed the little boy about, and then he saw how he shared his food with the Virgin Mary, and how she accepted it.

After some time the boy became ill, and for eight days could not leave his bed; but as soon as he could get up again, the first thing he did was to take his food to Our Lady. The priest followed him, and heard him say, "Dear God, do not take it amiss that I have not brought you anything for such a long time, for I have been ill and could not get up." Then the image answered him and said, "I have seen thy good-will, and that is enough for me. Next Sunday thou shalt go with me to the wedding." The boy rejoiced at this, and repeated it to the priest, who begged him to go and ask the image if he, too, might be permitted to go. "No," answered the image, "thou alone." The priest wished to prepare him first, and give him the holy communion and the child was willing, and next Sunday, when the host came to him, he fell down and died, and was at the eternal wedding.

The Hazel-Branch
 

One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep. Then his mother came to him, looked at him full of gladness, and said, "Hast thou laid thyself down to sleep, my child? Sleep sweetly, and in the meantime I will go into the wood, and fetch thee a handful of strawberries, for I know that thou wilt be pleased with them when thou awakest." In the wood outside, she found a spot with the most beautiful strawberries; but as she was stooping down to gather one, an adder sprang up out of the grass. She was alarmed, left the strawberries where they were, and hastened away. The adder darted after her; but Our Lady, as you can readily understand, knew what it was best to do. She hid herself behind a hazel-bush, and stood there until the adder had crept away again. Then she gathered the strawberries, and as she set out on her way home she said, "As the hazel-bush has been my protection this time, it shall in future protect others also." Therefore, from the most remote times, a green hazel-branch has been the safest protection against adders, snakes, and everything else which creeps on the earth.

Film Adaptations
 

Grimm's Fairy Tales have had an uncalculable impact on both film, literature, and pop culture. We all know what a "fairy tale wedding" or "Cinderella story" is, even if we've never read the Grimm originals. Collected here is a sampling of the most notable adaptations of the Brothers Grimm, organized by its source fairy tales.

• Beastly (2011 film)
  
• The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (2005 film)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (1946 film)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (1987 film)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (1992 film)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (2009 film)
  
• The Scarlet Flower (1952 film)
  
• Spike (2008 film)
  

• The 10th Kingdom
  
• Another Cinderella Story
  
• Cinderella (1899 film)
  
• Cinderella (1914 film)
  
• Cinderella (1947 film)
  
• Cinderella (1950 film)
  
• Cinderella (1977 film)
  
• Cinderella (1994 film)
  
• Cinderella (1997 film)
  
• Cinderella (2000 TV film)
  
• A Cinderella Story
  
• A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
  
• Cinderfella
  
• Cindy (film)
  
• A Coach for Cinderella
  
• Ella Enchanted (film)
  
• Ever After
  
• Falling for Grace
  
• The Glass Slipper
  
• Happily N'Ever After
  
• Hey, Cinderella!
  
• The Magic Riddle
  
• The Magic Shoes
  
• Once Upon a Time (1973 film)
  
• Poor Cinderella
  
• Puteri Impian
  
• Rags (film)
  
• A Ride for Cinderella
  
• The Slipper and the Rose
  
• Swing Shift Cinderella
  
• The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin
  

• Hansel and Gretel (2002 film)
  
• Hansel and Gretel (2007 film)
  
• Hansel & Gretel (2013 film)
  
• Hansel & Gretel Get Baked
  
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
  
• Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy
  
• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
  
• Warlock Moon
  
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
  

• Beanstalk Bunny
  
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1931 cartoon)
  
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)
  
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1974 film)
  
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
  
• Jack the Giant Killer (1962 film)
  
• Jack the Giant Killer (2013 Asylum film)
  
• Jack the Giant Slayer
  
• Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
  
• Mickey and the Beanstalk
  
• Tweety and the Beanstalk
  

• The Daydreamer (film)
  
• Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
  
• The Little Mermaid (1968 film)
  
• The Little Mermaid (1976 film)
  
• The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
  
• The Little Mermaid (1992 film)
  

• The Company of Wolves
  
• Deadtime Stories (film)
  
• Freeway (1996 film)
  
• Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
  
• Grandma's Pet
  
• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
  
• Hoodwinked!
  
• Little Red Riding Hood (1920 film)
  
• Little Red Riding Hood (1922 film)
  
• Little Red Riding Hood (1995 film)
  
• Little Red Riding Hood (1997 film)
  
• Little Red Riding Rabbit
  
• Little Red Rodent Hood
  
• Little Red Walking Hood
  
• Little Rural Riding Hood
  
• Red Hot Riding Hood
  
• Red Riding Hood (1989 film)
  
• Red Riding Hood (2003 film)
  
• Red Riding Hood (2006 film)
  
• Red Riding Hood (2011 film)
  
• Red Riding Hoodwinked
  
• Red: Werewolf Hunter
  
• Redux Riding Hood
  
• Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood
  
• A Wicked Tale
  

• Puss in Boots (1922 film)
  
• Puss in Boots (1988 film)
  
• Puss in Boots (1999 film)
  
• Puss in Boots (2011 film)
  
• Shrek 2
  
• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots
  

• Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
  
• Sleeping Beauty (1987 film)
  
• Sleeping Beauty (1995 film)
  
• Sleeping Betty
  
• Some Call It Loving
  

• 7 Dwarves - Men Alone in the Wood
  
• Blanche Neige
  
• Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
  
• Grimm's Snow White
  
• Happily Ever After (1993 film)
  
• Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple
  
• Mirror Mirror (film)
  
• Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge
  
• Snow White (1902 film)
  
• Snow White (1916 film)
  
• Snow White (1933 film)
  
• Snow White (1987 film)
  
• Snow White (1995 film)
  
• Snow White (2001 film)
  
• Snow White and the Huntsman
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1955 film)
  
• Snow White and the Seven Perverts
  
• Snow White and the Three Stooges
  
• A Snow White Christmas
  
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror
  
• Snow White: The Sequel
  
• Sydney White
  

• The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
  
• The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
  
• Tom Thumb (1958 film)
  
• Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood
  
• Tom Thumb in Trouble
  

• Barbie as Rapunzel
  
• Bewitched Bunny
  
• Brave Little Tailor
  
• The Bremen Town Musicians (1969)
  
• The Brothers Grimm (film)
  
• The Fisherman and His Wife (2005)
  
• The Four Musicians of Bremen (1922)
  
• The Frog Prince (1986 film)
  
• The Frog Prince (Muppets)
  
• Into the Woods
  
• King Thrushbeard (1965)
  
• King Thrushbeard (1984)
  
• The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
  
• Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
  
• Once Upon a Time (Television)
  
• The Pied Piper (1972)
  
• The Pied Piper (1986 film)
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 film)
  
• The Pied Piper (1933 film)
  
• The Princess and the Frog
  
• The Princess and the Pea (2002 film)
  
• Rumpelstiltskin (1985 film)
  
• Rumpelstiltskin (1987 film)
  
• Rumpelstiltskin (1996 film)
  
• The Seven Ravens (film)
  
• Shelly Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre (Television)
  
• Tangled
  
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
  

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