Revisiting the Brothers Grimm

The Takeaway

Once upon a time…there was a little girl.  Once upon a time…there was a little boy.  Once upon a time, we heard a story or paged through a book or were tucked into bed at night thinking about once upon a time.
But where did “once upon a time” begin?
Maybe you heard the phrase in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, or a retelling of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, or on the big screen…in “Sleeping Beauty” or “Snow White.”
As “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” the latest Grimm re-telling, hits the big screen, we look at where it all began with Maria Tatar, editor and translator of the new “Annotated Brothers Grimm.”  Tatar is also chair of the committee on degrees in folklore and mythology at Harvard University.

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