Juniper Tree Story

"The Juniper" might even be a German fairy tale, published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Low German Fairy Tales. Featuring themes to teach children to deal with imperfection and the inner beauty of the soul. This story is among his valuable and teachable mature Grimm fairy tales. Here we will learn about the ‘he grew the tree song’.

The story is Aarne Thompson Type 720 ("Juniper"). Another such story is that of the English rosebush, but with the ugly tree whose name was  juniper. Juniper thinks about looking beautiful.

Juniper Tree Story

Juniper Tree Summary

There was a stunning forest consisting of tall, lush trees. These trees were all enormous, erect, and had lovely branches. But one of these trees had twisted branches out of all the others. Whose name was Juniper? It stood much lower than the other trees and was unique. It despised itself because it was twisted and ugly.

The bent tree was ridiculed and insulted by all the other trees in the forest, who referred to it as an ugly tree. He was embarrassed by how unattractive he was and envious of all the other trees in the forest. Oh! He groaned and said. Take a look at those big trees. I wished I had their beauty. I detest my twisted and bent branches. There were dry leaves under the juniper tree. Juniper saw them when he got upset.

Bent Juniper Tree

A woodcutter arrived in the forest one day to chop some trees. As soon as he saw the unsightly tree, he said, "Look at this twisted and crooked tree. Cutting down this tree will serve no use and won't be of any assistance to me. I should chop all the tall trees down.

The woodcutter soon chopped down all of the trees. He exited the woodland, avoiding the unattractive crooked tree. The tree turned to look around and discovered that all of its neighbours had been entirely felled. It now saw the significance of his twisted and crooked branches. It praised God for giving it twisted branches and for sparing it from being chopped down because of them.

As a result, the bent tree discovered a fundamental lesson and vowed never to resent its crooked branches and always be grateful to God.

Moral of the Story

Kids, then! What can we infer from the tale of the ugly tree? We learn a precious lesson about life from this tale. It teaches us to constantly give thanks to God for whatever we have. We shouldn't ever despise ourselves since we are all special and diverse in our ways.

Tips to Parents

For young children, stories are compelling teaching tools for morality and ethics. Other tales like the fairy tail tree man and juniper tree and others aid in developing survival abilities in young children. Parents should describe juniper wood and its characteristics for the children's knowledge.

Conclusion

In this article, we learn the most beautiful and valuable story written by the brothers, Grimm. We have also read the whole story and understood its meaning. All the incidents in the story, like dropping the blood, burying the body in the juniper tree etc.