Rumpelstiltskin
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A miller’s daughter is forced to spin straw into gold under threat of death. A mysterious little man helps her three times, each time demanding a higher price, until the final debt reaches her first child.
Wonder tale
All-Kinds-of-Fur
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany · 1857
A king promises his dying wife that he will marry only someone with the same beauty and the same golden hair as hers. To escape what her father has decided, the king’s daughter asks for three dresses and a cloak of a thousand furs, and then flees into a forest. In a faraway castle she lives as a kitchen maid, her face smeared with soot, until the night she appears at a feast.
Content warning: Incestuous desire and an attempted marriage between father and daughter; death of the mother; flight; mistreatment and humiliation; threat of physical violence; use of animal skins.
- Original title
- Allerleirauh
What the app opens
In Dovor, every tale comes in full, with four readings written for it.
- Psychoanalytic readingdesires, lacks, defences and repetitions
- Symbolic readingconflicts, compensations and transformation
- Archetypal readinguniversal images, figures and motifs
- Phenomenological observationearth, water, air and fire
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The Nixie of the Mill-Pond
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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.
Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont · France
A ruined merchant gets lost in a forest and finds an empty palace where everything awaits him, ready. When he picks a rose in the garden, he is condemned to death by the owner of the place, a beast, who agrees to spare him if one of his daughters comes in his place. Beauty, the youngest, offers herself.