We summarize and discuss the Brothers Grimm story “Thumbling’s Travels.” The diminutive main character decides to leave home and make his way in the world. He’s given a needle sword by his father, and his mother’s food’s steam carries him through the chimney to begin his adventures. He meets a cast of characters, including a band of robbers and pilfering maids, and makes his way through a cow and various foods it’s made out of. Finally, a fox he makes a deal with brings him home, where his father trades all his fowl for his returned son.

This seemed like a fun story about a plucky young man who is thrust about in various circumstances but is able to evade all sorts of censure and danger, mocking many who try to capture him. He does not slay a dragon or win a great love, but he uses his wit and heart to survive many dangers of the world, and he thumbs his nose at people who try to control him.

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