Brothers Grimm Archives - Bone and Sickle

Glass-Coffin Girls

February 28, 2024 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, children's literature, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, literature, Snow White

The story of Snow White, as told by the Brothers Grimm, is only one of many narratives involving girls who[…]

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#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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