A Grimm Tale As Seen Through Gnarly Eyes

The Idiot Son

It has often been assumed that the Grimm Brothers recorded their tales with a lofty moral in mind. However, The Idiot Son doesn’t appear to hide any deeper meaning. At best it is a form of 18th century low comedy. Never more than half as clever as any Three Stooges short, one has to wonder if perhaps it inspired the Farrelly Brothers film, Dumb and Dumber.

AI Art — as requested by author

Disclaimer: In re-imagining Grimm Brother’s tales into Gnarly-Tree English we hope to scrub the tales of bigotry, freshen up the telling and perhaps restore some of the removed sex. We’ll see how well this works.

Some of the names have been changed to avoid confusion with other Grimm tales.

The Fiancé

Her name was Frieda. Since selling her parents to the sorceress next door, and thereupon inheriting their farm, she had distinguished herself as one of the more able and successful villagers.

Still, there was something about Freida. Being a single woman who was not a proper widow, she was frowned upon by the villagers. To solve this…