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"The Seven Ravens" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.〔Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'', "(SurLaLune Fairy Tale site, ''The Seven Ravens )"〕 It is tale number 25, and Aarne-Thompson type 451, the brothers who were turned into birds. Georgios A Megas collected another, Greek variant in ''Folktales of Greece''.〔Soula Mitakidou and Anthony L. Manna, with Melpomeni Kanatsouli, ''Folktales from Greece: A Treasury of Delights'', p 42 ISBN 1-56308-908-4〕 Other variants of the Aarne-Thompson type include ''The Six Swans'', ''The Twelve Wild Ducks'', ''Udea and her Seven Brothers'', ''The Wild Swans'', ''The Twelve Brothers'', and ''The Magic Swan Geese''.〔Heidi Anne Heiner, "(Tales Similar to The Six Swans )"〕 An animated feature film based on the story was released in 1937 (see ''The Seven Ravens''). ==Synopsis== A peasant has seven sons and no daughter. Finally a daughter is born, but is sickly. The father sends his sons to fetch water for her, in the German version to be baptized, in the Greek version to take water from a healing spring. In their haste, they drop the jug in the well. When they do not return, their father thinks that they have gone off to play and curses them and so they turn into ravens. When the sister is grown, she sets out in search of her brothers. She attempts to get help first from the sun, which is too hot, then the moon, which craves human flesh, and then the morning star. The star helps her by giving her a chicken bone (in the German) or a bat's foot (in the Greek) and tells her she will need it to save her brothers. She finds them on the Glass Mountain. In the Greek version, she opens it with the bat's foot, in the German, she has lost the bone, and chops off a finger to use as a key. She goes into the mountain, where a dwarf tells her that her brothers will return. She takes some of their food and drink and leaves in the last cup a ring from home. When her brothers return, she hides. They turn back into human form and ask who has been at their food. The youngest brother finds the ring, and hopes it is their sister, in which case they are saved. She emerges, and they return home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Seven Ravens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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