“The Rabbit's Bride.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 25-28.

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“The Rabbit's Bride.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 25-28. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/31/2022 - 19:15

Tale Summary

Once upon a time, a woman was pestered by a rabbit who was eating all of her fine cabbages, and so she tells her daughter to hunt it. She asks the rabbit to please stop eating the crops, and he asks her to climb on his tail and accompany him to his house. It continues like this for three days until she agrees. When she arrives, the rabbit asks her to cook him green lettuce and bran, and also tells her that there are wedding guests. He asks her three times to get up for their wedding, and on the third ask, distraught, the girl made a straw doll out of her own clothes (with lipstick and everything). She returns back home to her mother, but the rabbit finds the lifeless doll and believes his bride to be dead.

Fairy Tale Title

The Rabbit's Bride

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Common Tale Type

Rescue by the sister

Tale Classification

ATU 311

Page Range of Tale

pp. 25-28

Full Citation of Tale

“The Rabbit's Bride.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 25-28.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

All of the wedding guests are rabbits, except the parson, who is a crow, and the clerk, who is a fox. The altar is under the rainbow. Also, it is similar to the frog prince (of this same selection of tales) in that the girl is horrified by her potential partner and acts against them to prevent a relationship.

Research and Curation

Kaeli Waggener 2022

Book Title

A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Publisher

Siegle Hill & Co; The H.B. Claflin Company

Date Published

1900

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

This book includes six tales, most of which are the Grimm Brothers' best-known tales including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumplestilskin, Hansel and Grethel, The Rabbit’s Bride, and The Shreds. The illustrations are simple but beautiful and a few pages are decorated with floral motifs. It is a very small book that appears adapted for children.

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