We backtrack: Before becoming black pudding at the innkeeper’s he is taken in by robbers, who get him to steal from the king’s treasury. He tosses out coins while evading the guards, taunting them like he did the master’s wife.

After his escape from the pudding, he is almost eaten by a fox but saves himself by promising the animal his father’s chickens. The fox takes him home, he gives his father his Thaler, and the fox is given all the chickens the father has.

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Thumbling leaves the master’s house and goes to an innkeeper. Their maids dislike Thumbling because he tells their boss about their thefts. Again, he is chased by a woman with a cloth. She scoops him up, ties him and flings him towards the cows and he gets eaten. He makes his way through the digestive system, calling out for help. They can’t hear him at first, but then do but don’t know where he is. The cow is killed and slaughtered and made into black pudding, but he is able to avoid the knife and is now able to make his escape.

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A tailor’s son decides to go out into the world, is given a needle-sword, and has his last meal from his mom. But the vapors carry him out into the world via the chimney. He makes his way to a master’s house and is employed. But the food has too many potatoes and too little meat so he protests publicly. Enraged, the mistress chases him around while he taunts her from various hiding places. Eventually she chases him out of the house with her cloth.

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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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The frugal princess takes only what she needs. Food is rationed out to her; she survives on nettles; she keeps only the gift given to her herself. Or this may be more about getting what is your right, vs. trying to hide who you are and getting what you desire.

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We talk about elements of the story: the places where she sings her ditty: the nettle bush, the bridge and the church doorway.

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It’s notable that the princess’s kingdom has been destroyed in this story and that her father is never heard from again. And here, two political marriages are thwarted and the beautiful young people get to marry for love, but only after years of suffering, work, and risk. The princess also escapes the tower without the prince’s help. The prince also goes undeceived several times.

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After Maid Maleen passes the third location, a church door, and sings her ditty, the prince gives her a necklace. When she returns to the ugly princess, she returns everything but that. The ugly princess conceals herself on the wedding night and the prince administers an identity test. He asks her about the locations and the princess dismisses the questions before going back to Maid for the answer, threatening her life the third time. But the prince is still suspicious so he asks about the necklace and reveals her true identity. She orders her guards to kill MM but the prince saves her.

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