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Are You a Princess?

by Wayne Schatzle (West Chester, Ohio)             Some time ago I read a book about the familiar nursery rhymes and childhood stories published by the Grimm brothers in the early 1800s. Apparently these were mostly German folk stories passed down through generations by word of mouth, and we can thank the Grimm brothers for recording them for posterity. More often than not each story has a prince on a journey, a princess in danger, and an evil individual bent on coming between them.           The object of the book was to show that the point of these folklore stories was not […]