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Jacob Grimm ( 4th Jan 1785 - 20th Sept 1863) And Wilhelm Grim ( 24th Feb 1786 - 16th Dec 1859), German Brothers Renowned As ‘The Grimm Brothers’. They Were German Academic, Authors, Linguists, And Researchers. They Have Many Classic Fairy Stories And Published Them Under The Name Of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’. Their Famous Stories Are ‘The Golden Bird, Hans In Luck, Jorinda And Jorindel,The Travelling Musicians, Old Sultan, The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean, Briar Rose, The Dog And The Sparrow, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Fisherman And His Wife, The Willow-Wren And The Bear, The Frog-Prince, Cat And Mouse In Partnership, The Goose-Girl, The Adventures Of Chanticleer And Partlet, Rapunzel, Fundevogel, The Valiant Little Tailor, Hansel And Gretel, Mother Holle, Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood], The Robber Bridegroom, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, Clever Gretel, The Old Man And His Grandson, The Little Peasant, Frederick And Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop, The Pink, Lever Elsie, The Miser In The Bush, Ashputtel, The White Snake, The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids.

In The Seven Ravens a peasant sends his seven sons to fetch water for his daughter’s christening. Having lost their pails in the well, they are afraid to return home without having completed their task. The peasant, thinking they have gone off to play, curses them whereupon they are immediately transformed into ravens. When the daughter is grown up she sets off to discover the whereabouts of her long lost brothers. This folk tale exists in multiple varieties and was adapted into film in 1937.