Grimm KHM Tale-Type Crosswalk

All 211 Grimm tales (1857 numbering) with German and English titles, ATU tale types, Aarne-1910 joins, first editions, and Wikisource links. CC0 download.

CC0-1.0 · public domain · updated 2026-08

Tales
211
With ATU type
198
Aarne-1910 joins
153
License
CC0-1.0
CSV One row per tale — opens in any spreadsheet. JSON Self-describing: columns + rows.

Every tale of the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the canonical 1857 numbering — the 201 tales (KHM 1–200 plus 151a) and the 10 children's legends (KL 1–10) — in one machine-readable table: German title, English title, ATU tale-type number, the edition in which the tale first appeared (1812/15 through 1857), and a link to the 1857 German text on Wikisource.

The two-way join

This is the companion corpus to the Aarne 1910 Tale-Type Index, and the two datasets join in both directions. Aarne's catalogue cites Grimm tales by KHM number in its grimm_no column; this crosswalk inverts those citations into an aarne_1910_types column — so Hansel and Gretel (KHM 15) carries Aarne type 327 A, and Aarne type 327 A cites KHM 15. The 153 back-references come from Aarne's own 1910 text, not from a modern mapping — a provenance-clean join between the founding catalogue and the corpus it indexed most heavily.

What's in a row

khm_no (e.g. KHM 15, KL 3), part (KHM or KL), title_de, title_en, atu_type (e.g. 327A), atu_episode_types (secondary types noted for the tale), type_note (the full type annotation), aarne_1910_types, first_edition, and wikisource_de (the 1857 text).

Sources, honestly labeled

German titles, 1857 numbering, and first-edition data come from the German Wikisource edition tables of the KHM (public domain). The ATU type assignments follow the standard concordance compiled by the folklorist D. L. Ashliman (University of Pittsburgh) — type numbers and mappings are facts of the classification system, reproduced here as data; his site remains the reference for tale-by-tale commentary. English titles follow the conventional translations. Thirteen tales carry no type (atu_type empty) because they are unclassified in the ATU system — mostly the legends and a few late narrative pieces; the blank is faithful, not missing data.

What it's for

The KHM is the most-studied folktale corpus in existence, and this table is the join layer between its texts and the classification systems: attach tale types to any KHM text corpus, group tales by type family, trace which editions added which types, or pivot into the Aarne 1910 catalogue and the Myth Index for the motif-level view.

Also available on

This dataset is also published, CC0, on two open-data platforms — the same files, mirrored for reach and preservation:

Cite this dataset

Zinsfuss, Zara. Grimm KHM Tale-Type Crosswalk. Wheel of Heaven, 2026. CC0-1.0. https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/grimm-khm-index/

@misc{woh-grimm-khm-index,
  title  = {Grimm KHM Tale-Type Crosswalk},
  author = {Zinsfuss, Zara},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {CC0-1.0 public domain},
  url    = {https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/grimm-khm-index/}
}