Due to the possibility of readers I this blog not having come across the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, I'll be featuring some of their fairy tales in this blog for a short period.
Now beware, they might be fairy tales, but there's no sugar and sweetness in them. Even, there might be no light at the end of a long, long, tunnel...

Once upon a time,
A poor man had twelve children and was forced to work night and day to give them even bread. When therefore the thirteenth came into the world, he knew not what to do in his trouble, but ran out into the great highway, and resolved to ask the first person whom he met to be godfather.

The first to meet him was the good God who already knew what filled his heart, and said to him, poor man, I pity you. I will hold your child at its christening, and will take charge of it and make it happy on earth. The man said, who are you. I am God. Then I do not desire to have you for a godfather, said the man, you give to the rich, and leave the poor to hunger...

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