E03 · Brothers Grimm

Fitcher’s Bird

The bride at the window is a severed head.

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Fitcher’s Bird — Dark Fairytales

Scheduled · Nov 13, 2026

A forbidden room, a key and an egg expose what happened to two sisters. The youngest enters the same house with a different plan. Also known as The Forbidden Room.

Scheduled for Nov 13, 2026. New tales every Friday: video at 4:00 PM ET, podcast at 9:00 PM ET.

The recording will appear here when it is publicly available.

Text & translation

Grimm’s Household Tales, English edition by Marian Edwardes (1912); public domain source edition. Read the source edition ↗