“Fitcher’s Bird” for ‘Death’ on this, the fifth day, of Folktale Week on Instagram.
This is another gruesome tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm concerning the capturing, imprisonment and death of young girls by an evil wizard.
It is not until the youngest, and wisest, of three sisters outwits him by not doing as he wishes (carrying an egg wherever she goes!), and disguises herself with feathers as a bird, that she saves her sisters and escapes death herself.
It’s one of the few Grimm’s stories that the woman rebels and chooses to leave her ‘husband’, choosing to be free and single instead.