The Singing Bone

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The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.

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The Singing Bone canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fairy tale
literary work
alternateTitle Der singende Knochen NERFINISHED
author Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
classification Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 780
collection Grimms' Fairy Tales NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Jacob Grimm NERFINISHED
Wilhelm Grimm NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter boar
king
older brother
younger brother
firstPublishedIn Kinder- und Hausmärchen NERFINISHED
genre dark fairy tale
fairy tale
hasAdaptation The Singing Bone (literary retellings) NERFINISHED
The Singing Bone (operatic adaptations) NERFINISHED
hasTheme envy
fratricide
justice
murder revealed
moral crime will eventually be revealed
envy and greed lead to ruin
motif murder revealed by a musical instrument
reward for slaying a monster
singing bone
narrativeForm prose
originalLanguage German
partOf German folklore
plotSummary An older brother murders his younger brother after they hunt a dangerous boar, and the crime is later revealed when the younger brother's bones are made into a musical instrument that sings of the murder.
publicationCentury 19th century

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Description of subject: The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.

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Brothers Grimm fairy tales includesWork The Singing Bone