Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

‘The Little Shroud’ is unclassified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index, and the only tale listed there to exemplify this type is this tale itself, under the title of ‘The Child’s Grave’.

Two Eyes was looking out of her bedroom window to see the tree standing happily in the castle courtyard, for in the middle of the night it had pulled its roots out of the ground and tiptoed all the way there to find her.

‘Oh, that’s not right,’ said the chief. ‘That’s a dirty trick.’ Even the robbers, hard-hearted as they were, were moved to pity.

‘And what about you, Cinderella?’ he said.

before he knew what was happening, he was a donkey. Needless to say, that made the cabbage taste much better.

There was once a shoemaker who had become so poor (through no fault of his own)

Now on the day when the princess turned fifteen, it happened that the king and the queen were away,

When the prince and his bride walked into the church, the older sister walked on their right and the younger sister on their left, and the doves flew down and pecked out one eye from each of them.

The runner joined in with them, and presently they came to a man who was wearing his cap on one side, with the flap over one of his ears.