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Mother Hulda
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fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
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Vinony's link graph records 608 inbound references to Mother Hulda, and connects out to Aarne–Thompson–Uther classification system, Diana and Grimms' fairy tales.
It sits within the topics 1812 short stories, ATU 460-499 and ATU 480 The Kind and the Unkind Girls.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Name
- Frau Holle
- Aarne thompson grouping
- ATU 480
- Country
- Germany
- Published in
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre
- fairy tale
- Image
- Illustration at page 126 in Grimm's Household Tales (Edwardes, Bell).png
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- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index
- 480
- published in
- Grimms' fairy tales
- Commons category
- Mother Hulda
- described by source
- Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
- title
- Holle Rouva
- publication date
- 1812-00-00
- language of work or name
- German
- catalog code
- KHM 24
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Encyclopedic overview
"Frau Holle" (/ˈfraʊ ˈhɒl/; German: [fʁaʊ ˈhɔlə] ; also known as "Mother Holle", "Mother Hulda" or "Old Mother Frost") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Children's and Household Tales in 1812 (KHM 24). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 480.
Frau Holle (also known in various regions as Holla, Holda, Perchta, Berchta, Berta, or Bertha) was a folk figure whom the Grimms claimed survived in popular belief well into the 19th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mother Hulda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.