What Grimms' Fairy Tale Is It? Quiz

Answer: Fawn

A delightful story of loyalty between a brother and sister. Even though the brother is turned into a fawn, the sister never leaves him. During a hunting trip the fawn is seen by the king's men entering a cottage, being let in by a beautiful young girl.

The king lays a trap the next day and finds the sister, marries her and has a child. Unfortunately, the witch stepmother, overcome with envy, puts a spell on the sister and replaces her in the castle with her own daughter. All ends well when the king discovers the swap and he banishes the witch's daughter to the forest, where she is killed by wild beasts.

The witch is burnt to death. After the witch dies the brother is returned to human form. Of course they live happily ever after.

Answer: Fisherman

The fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" is about a fisherman who catches a flounder. The flounder explains to him that he is an enchanted prince so the fisherman lets him go. The fisherman tells his wife, who demands he go back and ask the flounder to grant a wish for a cottage.

Not satisfied with the cottage, the wife makes her husband ask for a castle, then asks to be a queen and an empress. On it goes, until he story ends with, "'Go to her', said the flounder. 'She is back in the hovel again.' And there they are living to this very day."

Answer: Wolf

The wolf came up with the plan of taking the peasant's baby from the fields and for Sultan to come to the rescue and return the baby to its parents. It worked a treat and Sultan was saved and honoured by the family.

Answer: The Six Swans

The king had seven children, six princes and one princess. The king was widowed and felt that the children might be mistreated by his new wife, so hid them in a castle. The new queen found them and changed the princes into swans. To undo the trance the princess was not to speak or laugh for six years, and had to sew six shirts for the princes out of starwort. Obviously she did, and there was a happy ending.

Starwort is used to describe any plant that has a star-shaped flower, including water plants, and others such as an aster and chickweed.

Answer: Forced to marry the first beggar to come to the palace

Her father the king forced her to marry the first beggar to come to the palace, who turned out to be a minstrel. The princess tried a number of jobs to earn money for food, such as basket weaving and spinning, selling pots at the market, none were successful.

Therefore, her husband got her a job at a castle as the cook's assistant. On a day of celebration at the castle King Thrushbeard grasped her hand to dance. The princess, being embarrassed by the way that she had treated the king, tried to run away.

Then King Thrushbeard revealed himself as the minstrel she had married and they were happy ever after.

Answer: It is turned into a princess

The miller sends out three boys to find a horse, and the one with the best horse will inherit the mill. The stable boy Hans is considered by the other two boys as a liability so they quickly leave him behind. He becomes lost in the forest and meets a cat. Before the cat will assist him he has to serve her for seven years, after which she will give him a horse. Hans did everything the cat wanted, and at the end of the time the cat took him back to the mill.

The other two boys were already there and had horses, one blind in one eye and the other lame. Three days later a coach with six carriage horses and a spare arrived at the mill.

Inside the carriage was a beautiful princess. The princess gave the spare horse to the miller and took Hans back to her palace.

Answer: A dwarf

When the first brother meets the dwarf he is rude, so the dwarf puts a spell on him, entombing him into a mountain. The second brother meets the same fate. On the other hand, the third brother is polite, and in return receives the information of the location of the water of life. Not only does he receive the water of life, but he also wins the heart of a princess.

Answer: True

The soldier met an old woman who told him not to drink the wine, to pretend to be asleep, and to use the coat to become invisible. The soldier did this and followed the princesses. During the trips he took evidence so that he could prove it to the king.

The princesses left the castle through a secret passageway from their chambers. They walked to the lake where 12 princes met them and rowed them over to a castle where they danced until their shoes where worn out. The soldier followed them for three days and then informed the king, earning marriage to the eldest princess.

Answer: A spirit in the bottle

"The Spirit in the Bottle" is a fairy tale about finding a spirit in a bottle which is not a good spirit, and it threatens to kill the son. The son tricks the spirit to get back in the bottle. The spirit is desperate to get out and enters into another agreement to give treasures instead of death.

The son risks it and lets the spirit out of the bottle, and is rewarded with a rag that cures wounds as well as turning metal into silver.

Answer: Briar Rose

After being finally blessed with a child, the king and queen threw a banquet. They only invited 12 of the 13 fairies. After 11 fairies had given the child their gifts, the 13th fairy burst into the party and put a spell on the baby. The spell was she would prick her finger and die at the age of 15.

The 12th fairy could not remove the spell, but could change it from death to sleeping for 100 years. Sure enough, at 15 the spell happened and everyone fell asleep, and around the castle grew a briar rose. Over the years princes tried to get through the briar, and finally one did, then he kissed the princess and everyone woke up.