Read the excerpt from "How the Grimm Brothers Saved
the Fairy Tale."
All of the tales in the first edition bear the marks of their
diverse storytellers who believed in the magic,
superstitions, and miraculous transformations of the
tales. It may be difficult for us to understand why this is
the case, but for the storytellers and writers of these
tales, the stories contained truths about the living
conditions of their times. The tales in the first edition
were collected not from peasants, as is commonly
believed, but mainly from literate people whom the
Grimms came to know quite well. Evidence shows that
these people often obtained their tales from illiterate or
anonymous informants. Even if they did not know their
informants, the Grimms came to trust almost everyone
who contributed to their collection. It is this mutual trust
that marks the tales as something special and endows
them with a certain humanity what Germans.call
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paragraph?
O The Grimms trusted their contributors to give them
tales that came from the oral tradition of the culture.
Storytellers believed in the magical, life-saving
transformations they reported in their folk tales.
The first-edition tales influenced folklorists to trust
one another to gather authentic tales of living
conditions.
O Literate people collected the first-edition tales and
gave them to the Grimm brothers.
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