from a Berlin edition of Grimms’ fairy tales (1865) Credit: Alamy Like the Grimms, Schmiesing is a researcher and university teacher. Her book has the precision, and occasional stiffness of ...

How does the same story come to be known as “Beauty and the Beast” in the U.S. and “The Fairy Serpent” in China? As Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm collected ... If a similar tale was told in ...