Fuck Yeah, Folklore!

“Like the sirens, the Nixie by her song draws listening youth to herself, and then into the deep.”

“To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,
The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.
Ha! glad am I that no one knew
That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.”

(From Rumpelstiltskin)

The tender-hearted children seized hold of the little man, and struggled so long with the bird that at last he let go his prey.

When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully? You have torn my thin little coat all to shreds, useless, awkward hussies that you are!”

Schneewhittchen, “Snow White,” from a 1919 German anthology of fairy tales entitled Märchenbuch.