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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
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Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below
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Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.
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Turn back, turn back, thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.
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Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.
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Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?
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They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.
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Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
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Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.
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The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.
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Born:
January 4, 1785
Died:
September 20, 1863
(aged 78)
Bio:
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.
Known for:
Jorinde and Joringel (1812)
Brother and Sister (1812)
Deutsche Sagen (1816)
King Thrushbeard
The Golden Bird
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