The Fisherman and His Wife
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The Fisherman and His Wife is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19. It is Aarne-Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife.
Its theme is similar to that of The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, an 1835 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin.
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The story was narrated by Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster in a 1989 short film Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife [1].
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