Grimm. (2012). "The 12 Huntsmen." Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. New York: Fall River Press.
This fairytale is about a son and maiden and king who is sick. The son leaves the maiden a ring promising to marry her before he goes to visit his dying father (the king). His father's dying request to his son is to marry another king's daughter, which the son agrees to without thinking. The wishes for 11 huntsmen that look just like her because she also dresses up like a huntsman. A lion tells the king to lie peas on the ground to see if the huntsmen really are women are not. The lion says that women will slip, but men will be able to walk on the peas. The huntsmen all were able to walk. Then, the lion tells the king to put 12 new spinning wheels in a room because he says that women will be excited to see them. However, the huntsmen passed as huntsmen again. Later, the true bride faints when the other bride comes, and when the king sees her ring (the original bride's ring), he knows who she is. They end up marrying each other.
I thought that this fairytale was also hard to follow. However, I thought it might be a good sequencing fairytale because of the different tests the lion provides. I also think this fairytale could be used to have children come up with other tests that the lion could have done to discover whether or not the huntsmen were women.
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