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Buna seara,
Sunt Irina Chindris, masteranda la specializarea LECT, anul I. N am primit accept pe forum si de aceea va trimit materialul de la materia ,,European Fairy Tales,, de pe adresa colegei mele, Chindris (Timis) Ioana.
Va rog frumos sa l luati in considerare.


Multumesc anticipat,
Irina Chindris

• About collector
The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types.
The brothers were born in the German town of Hanau and spent most of their childhood in the nearby town of Steinau. Their father's death in 1796 impoverished the family and affected the brothers for many years after. They attended the University of Marburg where they began a lifelong dedication to researching the early history of German language and literature, including German folktales. The rise of Romanticism during the 18th century had revived interest in traditional folk stories, which to the Grimms and their colleagues represented a pure form of national literature and culture. The Brothers Grimm established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies. In addition to collecting and editing folk tales, the brothers compiled German legends. Individually, they published a large body of linguistic and literary scholarship. Many of Grimms' folk tales have enjoyed enduring popularity .
• Sweet porridge-Austrian fairy tales-Collected by The Brothers Grimm
Summary
There was a poor but good little girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a little pot, which when she said, "Cook, little pot, cook," would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, "Stop, little pot," it ceased to cook. The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose.
Once on a time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, "Cook, little pot, cook." And it did cook and she ate until she was satisfied, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world, and there was the greatest distress, but no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one single house remained, the child came home and just said, "Stop, little pot," and it stopped and gave up cooking, and whosoever wished to return to the town had to eat their way back.
• Position i the Aarne-Thomson type 565, the magic mill.
• Functions of Vladimir Propp on this fairy tale :
-The helper- an aged woman
-A magical object : a pot
• Other tales of this type include Why the Sea Is Salt and The Water Mother.