Wonder tale
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany · 1857
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.
Content warning: Mutilation, family violence, pact with the devil, death threat against mother and child, abandonment.
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