The owl, the raven, and the dove; the religious meaning of the Grimms' magic fairy tales

1 The roots of spiritual stories. 2 Scholars and the religious spirit of the tales. 3 The spirituality of Wilhelm Grimm. 4 Hansel and Gretel. 5 Little Red Riding Hood. 6 Cinderella. 7 Snow White. 8 Sleeping Beauty. 9 Afterword. Appendix A - The verses marked by Wilhelm Grimm in his Greek New Testament. Appendix B - Little Red Riding Hood, 1st edition, 1812. Appendix C - Yggdrasil, the cross, and the Christmas tree

'Wilhelm Grimm has found a worthy modern expositor--almost a new brother--in Ron Murphy, whose gifts of research, sympathetic insight, and ecumenical religious imagination mirror those of the romantic literary genius, Wilhelm himself. Father Murphy's archival discoveries have allowed him to reconstruct Wilhelm's generous religious mentality, and his new readings of the tales in view of this mindset will come as a revelation to professional students of the Grimms' tales and to the general reader alike.'

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