The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)
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"The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40.[1] Joseph Jacobs included a variant, Mr Fox, in English Fairy Tales,[2] but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the Mr. Fox variant in Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1:[3]
- Like the old tale, my lord: "it is not so, nor `t was not so; but, indeed, God forbid it should be so."
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Folk tale | |
Name | The Robber Bridegroom |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 955 (The Robber Bridegroom) |
Region | Germany |
Published in | Kinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brother Grimm |
Related | Bluebeard How the Devil Married Three Sisters Fitcher's Bird |
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It is Aarne–Thompson type 955, the robber bridegroom.[4] This type is closely related to tales of type 312, such as Bluebeard, and type 311, such as How the Devil Married Three Sisters and Fitcher's Bird.[5]