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"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (or "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces") (German: Die zertanzten Schuhe) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 133). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 306.
- ATU 306
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Germany
- Münster
There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty.
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„The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces,“ also known as „The Twelve Dancing Princesses,“ is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in their collection, „Grimms‘ Fairy Tales“ (originally titled „Kinder- und Hausmärchen“), published in 1812.
“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is a Brothers Grimm tale where a soldier uncovers the nightly secret of twelve princesses’ worn-out shoes. The story of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” recounts the tale of a king with twelve daughters who mysteriously wear out their shoes every night.
The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.