The Seven Ravens is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 25, and Aarne-Thompson type 451, the brothers who were turned into birds. An animated feature film based on the story was released in 1937 (see The Seven Ravens). 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. ... Grimms Kinder- und Hausmärchen - Erster Theil (1812) Cover Art The world famous collection of German (and French) fairy tales Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM; English: Childrens and Household Tales), commonly known as Grimms Fairy Tales, was published by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm... Wilhelm (left) and Jacob Grimm (right) from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. ... Antti Amatus Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... The Seven Ravens (German: ) is a German stop motion-animated film that was directed by the Diehl brothers. ...

Synposis

A peasant had seven sons and no daughter until finally a daughter was born, but she was sickly. He sent his sons to fetch water for her to be baptized, but in their haste, they dropped the jug in the well. When they did not return, their father thought they had left it off to play and cursed them. Unexpectedly, it turned them into ravens, as he said.

When the sister was grown, she set out in search of her brothers. She attempts to get help first from the sun, then the moon, then the morning star, and the star does help her, giving her a chicken bone and tell her she will need it to save her brothers. She finds the Glass Mountain where they are, but she has lost the bone. She chops off a finger to use as a key, and gets into the mountain, where a dwarf tells her that her brothers will return. She takes some of their food and drink and leaves in the last cup a ring from home.

When her brothers return, she hides, and they turn into human form and ask who has been at their food. The last one finds the ring, and hopes it is their sister, in which case they are saved. She emerges, and they return home. The youngest son is a stock character in fairy tales, where he features as the hero. ...

See also

• The Six Swans
• The Raven
• The Twelve Wild Ducks
• Udea and her Seven Brothers
• The Wild Swans
• The Twelve Brothers

1 A KING was once hunting 2 in a great wood, 3 and he hunted the game so eagerly that none of his courtiers 4 could follow him. ... A story about the raven which is a combined entity made up of both the brothers greatest qualities. ... The Twelve Wild Ducks is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. ... Udea and her Seven Brothers is a Northern African fairy tale collected by Hans von Stumme in Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis. ... The Wild Swans (De vilde svaner) is a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. ... The Twelve Brothers (German: Die zwölf Brüder) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 9. ...

External links

• SurLaLune Fairy Tale site, The Seven Ravens