Two Eyes From The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

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One of my favorite short stories was One Eye Two Eyes Three Eyes from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. By the title you would assume it was about witches or shrews but alas it contains none of the sort. The story starts with three sisters and a mother, one sister had one eye, one had two eyes and another three. When setting up the background for the story a line states “Thou, with thy two eyes, art no better than the common people” this was said by the mother to two eyes. Throughout the tale two eyes is treated badly and luckily a prince wanting an apple from a tree sprouted from magical goat guts took her away to live a life of wealth and leisure in a plot line that can only make sense in a fairy tail. What interests me in this is that

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