As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

: the Brothers Grimm

In the first story of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Die Wichtelmänner, the title protagonists are two naked mannequins, which help a shoemaker in his work.

Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1812.

: The Brothers Grimm ( 2005 )

The company also staged in 2011-12, Si seulement je pouvais avoir peur, a production directed by Julie Burnier of a text by Nicolas Yazgi inspired by the Brothers Grimm.

The Serbian grammar by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić arrived in 1814, while the Deutsche Grammatik of the Brothers Grimm was first published in 1818.

File: Grimm. jpg | Brothers Grimm ( 1785 – 1863 & 1786 – 1859 )

The Brothers Grimm identified Hengist with Aschanes, mythical first King of the Saxons, in their notes for legend number 413 of their German Legends.

He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author ( with his brother ) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

* Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt ( This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms ' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.

Baum's avowed intentions with the Oz books, and other fairy tales, was to tell such tales as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen told, bringing them up to date by making the characters not stereotypical dwarfs or genies, and by removing both the violence and the moral to which the violence was to point.

* Household Tales ( by the Brothers Grimm )

An illustration from page 30 of Mjallhvít ( Snow White ) an 1852 Icelandic translation of the Brothers Grimm | Grimm-version fairytale

* In the European fairy tale, " Snow White " ( collected by Brothers Grimm in 1812 ), the evil queen asks, " Mirror, mirror, on the wall ... who's the fairest of them all?

He, along with Frukwan of Stetsasonic, Too Poetic of Brothers Grimm, and The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, made up the Gravediggaz.

This was notably attempted by the Brothers Grimm, especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with the compilation of the Kalevala.

The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence.

The Brothers Grimm, inspired by Herder's writings, put together an idealized collection of tales, which they labeled as authentically German.

Romantic nationalism inspired the collection of folklore by such people as the Brothers Grimm.

The Brothers Grimm ( or Die Gebrüder Grimm ), Jacob ( January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859 ), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore.

* Scarfe, Norman ( 1995 ) Innocent espionage: the La Rochefoucauld Brothers ' tour of England in 1785, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, ISBN 0-85115-596-0

* May 1785 – James Sadler made a hot air balloon ascent near here, accompanied by a Member of Parliament, about a year after the success of the Montgolfier Brothers balloon

* 1960 – Warren Haynes, American guitarist and songwriter ( The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and The Dead )

* 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $ 146 million plus $ 50 million for charity.

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* 1939 – Phil Balsley, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1989 – Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter and actor ( Jonas Brothers )

* 1939 – Harold Reid, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1912 – Herbert Mills, American singer ( The Mills Brothers ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter ( The Righteous Brothers ) ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Louvin Brothers ) ( d. 1965 )

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

* 1947 – Gregg Allman, American musician ( The Allman Brothers Band )

* 1948 – Jeff Baxter, American guitarist ( Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers )

* 1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

* 1268 – The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.

* 1948 – Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter ( The Doobie Brothers ) ( d. 2005 )

All three principal types of resonator guitars were invented by the Slovak-American John Dopyera ( 1893 – 1988 ) for the National and Dobro ( Dopyera Brothers ) companies.

The Pirate gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism and is probably best remembered for Kelly's work with The Nicholas Brothers – the leading African-American dancers of their day – in a virtuoso dance routine.

* 1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician ( The Naked Brothers Band )