I love all the Grimm tales. I was familiar with most, but the one I found really interesting because I have never heard of it was
“The Thumbling.” A husband and wife want a child to liven up their house. The say that even a child as big as a thumb would be fine. The wife has a baby after nine months the exact size of a thumb. They love the child. The child grows up and wants to help his dad. He hops on a horse and talks in its ear and takes the horse to his father, who is working in the forest. Two men see him and buy him from his father. The boy is a trickster, and escapes the men by crawling into a mouse hole. Then he comes across two robbers looking for a way to steal someone’s riches and tells them he will help, when the men place him in the persons house he starts yelling to wake everyone up. The thumbling then falls asleep on some hay and then is eaten by a cow. In the cows belly he yells and the woman milking the cow is frightened and the cow is killed. When the thumbling is crawling out of the stomach of the cow, the stomach is eaten by a wolf. He tells the wolf he knows where there is more food and the wolf goes to a house and crawls in and eats all the food. When the wolf tries to leave he is too fat, and the boy starts yelling. This is his parent’s house and they hear him inside the wolf and kill the wolf and they all live happily ever after.
Picture Attribution
By Philipp Grot Johann (1841-1892) (http://ru-book-illustr.livejournal.com/231754.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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