a All excerpts from the Grimms’ prefaces are from Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987), Appendix B, pp. 203-222; see “For Further Reading”.
b Official who maintains church property.
c One who drives a wagon.
f Part of the membrane enclosing the fetus left over the baby’s head at birth, once thought to bring good luck.
h One who turns objects on a lathe in order to shape them.
j A stolen child secretly put in the place of another.
l Stiffened strips used in a corset.
m Representation of notes of birdsong.
o Made of all kinds of fur (German).
p Five-petaled flower, pale red or pink in color.
q Leftover material from the tree bark—“tanbark”—used in tanning hides for leather.
t Our Father (Latin)—the Lord’s Prayer.
u Small mammal with quills, like a porcupine.
w One who buys and slaughters worn-out horses and sells the flesh for dog-food, etc.
x Mythical beast with head, wings, and claws of an eagle and hindquarters of a lion.
y A cobbler’s awl is a small, pointed tool for making holes in leather; thus the name is appropriate for a cobbler, or shoemaker.
z Reference to the Bible, Matthew 7:3: “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (King James Version).