Brothers Grimm: The Straw, the Coal and the Bean, and Briar Rose By Dan
Yes finally finished!
This is definitely the shortest of the fairy tales I’ve had to analyze, and there’s not much to it. Basically, it starts with an old woman who is starting to cook a bunch of beans for dinner, and as she’s pouring the beans in a pot, a bean jumps out, then one of the straws that was burning jumped out, and finally a piece of coal jumped out.
Seeing that …