Donkey Cabbages or The Donkey Cabbage is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 122. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book. A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Wilhelm (left) and Jacob Grimm (right) from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder - for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the painter) were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hessian professors who were best... For the former National Basketball Association player, see Andrew Lang (basketball). ... Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, by Henry J. Ford Andrew Langs Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. ...

Ruth Manning-Sanders included it, as "The Donkey Lettuce", in A Book of Witches. In 1988, the story was also animated by Japan's Nippon Animation studio for its Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics series; the title of the episode in the English version produced by Saban Entertainment is The Magic Heart. Ruth Manning-Sanders (born 1895 in Swansea, Wales; died October 12, 1988, in Penzance, England) was a poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of childrens books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. ... A Book of Witches is a 1966 anthology of 12 fairy tales from Europe that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nippon Animation (日本アニメーション) is a Japanese animation studio. ... Grimms Fairy Tale Classics , Grimm Masterpiece Theatre) is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation and Saban Entertainment. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Saban is a dubbing company known for importing and adapting several Japanese series to North American and international markets for syndication, including both animation and live action shows. ...

Synopsis

A huntsman gave an old woman alms. She told him to go to a tree where nine birds fought over a cloak; if he shot among them, one would die and they would drop the cloak, which was a wishing cloak. Furthermore, if he swallowed the heart of the dead bird, he would find a gold coin by his pillow every morning. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

He went out into the world and came to a castle where an old witch lived with her beautiful daughter. The witch knew about the bird's heart and told her daughter what she had to do to steal it. She gave the man a drink, and the bird's heart came up. The daughter swallowed it herself. Then the witch told her that she had to steal the wishing cloak as well, and how to do it. The daughter looked at the Garnet Mountain and told the huntsman that she wished she was there. He took her under the cloak and wished them both there. He slept there, and she stole the cloak and wished herself back home. This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ...

Three giants saw him and talked of killing him, but the third said that a cloud would bear him away. He climbed up the mountain and rode off on a cloud. It bore him to a cabbage garden. He was so hungry that he ate some. It turned him into a donkey. He went on, and found a different patch of cabbage, which turned him back into a man. He took both kinds of cabbage and went back to the castle. He told the witch that he was a royal messenger, sent to fetch the finest cabbage for the king, but he was afraid that the heat would make it wither. The witch asked for some. He gave it to her, and she, her maidservant, and the daughter all ate and became donkeys. The huntsman sold them to a miller, telling him to give the old one, the witch, one meal a day and three beatings; the younger one, the maid-servant, three meals and one beating; and the youngest, the daughter, three meals and no beatings. The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. ... Shapeshifting, transformation , transmogrification or morphing is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially: a change from human form to animal form and vice versa a change in appearance from one person to another Shapeshifting is not considered scientifically or medically possible for humans (and animal shapeshifting...

After a time, he came back. The miller told him that the oldest was dead, but the two younger were so sad he thought they would die. The huntsman bought them back and turned them back into women. The daughter told him where the cloak was and said she would give him back the heart as it had been stolen, but he said it would make no difference, if they wed. So they married.

The Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics episode based on Donkey Cabbages, The Magic Heart, made a few alterations to the story (at least in the English-dubbed version). In The Magic Heart, the huntsman is named Frederick and the witch's daughter is named Lisbeth; neither character was given a name in the original story. Also, rather than the heart of a dead bird, Frederick swallows a golden orb. The "magic heart" of the episode's title is not the heart of a dead bird, but rather the magic of Frederick's heart when he forgives Lisbeth for her transgressions against him.

See also

• The Two Brothers

The Two Brothers is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 60. ...

External links

• Donkey Cabbages
• The Donkey Cabbage