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Realistic tale

Maid Maleen

Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany · 1857

A princess is walled up in a tower by her own father for refusing another marriage. When she finally gets out, the kingdom lies in ruins, and she goes to work in the kitchen of the palace where her betrothed lives.

Content warning: Imprisonment, hunger, war and devastation, threat of death, beheading, coercion.

Original title
Jungfrau Maleen
Maid Maleen

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  • Psychoanalytic readingdesires, lacks, defences and repetitions
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The Maiden Without Hands

The Maiden Without Hands

Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany

An impoverished miller promises an unknown old man whatever stands behind his mill, thinking it is an apple tree. Three years later, his daughter loses her hands, leaves her father's house and comes to a royal garden where the pears are counted.

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Alemanha

In a time of famine, two siblings are abandoned in the forest. Pebbles, crumbs and a white bird lead them to an edible house hiding a devouring threat.

The Nixie of the Mill-Pond

The Nixie of the Mill-Pond

Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm

A bargain made without understanding its price crosses two generations, until a woman seeks to recover the husband taken by the nixie of the pond.