Sunday, April 9, 2017

Wikipedia Trails: from Grimms' Fairy Tales to Sine qua non

Grimms' Fairy Tales
A book that contained a collection of German fairy tales.

Rapunzel
A fairytale in the Brothers Grimm collection which tells of a girl with long hair trapped in a tower.

Aarne–Thompson classification systems
This is the system used to classify folktales.

Sine qua non
This is a phrase for "without which there is nothing." Used in a sentence: "her leadership was the sine qua non of the organization's success."

The first book of the Brothers Grimm collection of fairy tales.
Source: Wikipedia.

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