The Fisherman and His Wife
- The Fisherman and His Wife
"The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19. It is Aarne-Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife. Its theme is similar to that of "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", an 1835 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Adaptations
The story was narrated by Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster in a 1989 short film "" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215098/] .
The story was used as the third in a series of episodic games known as American McGee's Grimm.
ee also
*The Gold-Children
External links
* [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/19fishermanwife.html SurLaLune Fairy Tale site "The Fisherman and His Wife"]
* [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm019.html "The Fisherman and His Wife"]
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