https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Methodology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Methodology Quote: "According to scholars such as Ruth B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Methodology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Methodology Quote: "According to scholars such as Ruth Bottigheimer and Maria Tatar, some of the tales probably originated in written form during the medieval period with writers such as Straparola and Boccaccio, but were modified in the 17th century and again rewritten by the Grimms. Moreover, Tatar writes that the brothers' goal of preserving and shaping the tales as something uniquely German at a time of French occupation was a form of "intellectual resistance" and, in so doing, they established a methodology for collecting and preserving folklore that set the model followed later by writers throughout Europe during periods of occupation."