The Juniper Tree
Added 2025-07-08 07:47:31 +0000 UTC"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812. The story contains themes of child abuse, murder, cannibalism, and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales.
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Seconded! Between this and Tom’s Disney retellings, I could listen to these ones endlessly.
Danica
2025-07-15 12:29:16 +0000 UTCEli color commentary needs to be a new thing on Citation Needed.
Lora Forsyth
2025-07-11 17:26:27 +0000 UTCHoly shit. A hundred more reads of old children's tales, please
John D Braitsch
2025-07-09 20:43:28 +0000 UTC
