The Six Swans in English - Story for Kids - English Fairy Tales. English Story | Fairy Tales in English | Bedtime Stories | Fairy Tales | English Stories | 4K UHD | English Fairy Tales The Six Swans (German: Die sechs Schwäne) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 49). It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Brothers Who Were Turned into Birds"), commonly found throughout Europe. Other tales of this type include The Magic Swan Geese, The Seven Ravens, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, and The Twelve Brothers. Andrew Lang included a variant of the tale in The Yellow Fairy Book. The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812 and substantially rewritten for the second edition in 1819. Their source is Wilhelm Grimm's friend and future wife Dortchen Wild (1795–1867). #TheSixSwans #storyforkids #fairytales