The Juniper Tree (Patreon)

"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812. The story contains themes of child abuse, murder, cannibalism, and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales.