Today is the birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, half of the Grimm Brothers folklorist outfit that compiled a wonderful (and pretty… ah, grim) collection of legend and folktales, and later suffered the double posthumous indignity of having their “fairy tales” sweetened and disneyfied, and of becoming silly characters in a not-so-great fantasy action movie.

Karavansara salutes Wilhelm Grimm with a pretty grim black cat, by the great Arthur Rackham, from his illustrated edition of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales.