History of Fairy-Tale Villains
A game in which everyone plays a villain from the Grimms' fairy tales – figures that have been in the Children's and Household Tales since 1812.
The Grimms' fairy tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of their Children's and Household Tales in 1812 and the second in 1815, and kept revising the collection for decades. All the villains in this game come from it: the witch from Hansel and Gretel, the wolf from The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids and Little Red Cap, Rumpelstiltskin, the stepmother from Snow White, the sorcerer in the tower after the old sorceress in Jorinde and Joringel, and the thirteenth wise woman from Little Briar Rose.
Fairy-Tale Villains in PaperGames
The tales are in the public domain. The game takes only the figures and a few details from them – the chalk and the flour of the wolf, the gifts of the stepmother, the spinning of straw into gold, the curse and the spindle of the thirteenth wise woman – and gives every villain a plan, places and cards of its own. Names, pictures and rules of the game are PaperGames' own, not taken from films or other games.