History Literature / BrotherAndSister

After their mother has died, two young siblings, a boy and a girl, are mistreated by their WickedStepmother, so much that they decide to run away from home. But the stepmother, who is also a [[WickedWitch witch]], enchants the streams of the forest where the children are wandering, so that drinking from them would turn them into animals. The girl sees through the trap and talks her brother out of drinking from two streams that would have turned him into a tiger and a wolf, but when they come upon a stream that turns people into deer, he is so thirsty that he doesn't care any more, and turns into a roe fawn.

On seeing the sister, the king falls in love with her and asks her to marry him. She agrees to come to his castle, but only if the deer, her brother, can come too. Thus she is made queen, and the brother lives in the royal gardens. After a while, the sister has a child with the king. But by now, the evil stepmother has learned that the siblings are still alive, and, driven by hate and envy, plots to destroy their happiness...

* BackFromTheDead: After being suffocated in a bathhouse by the sorcerous stepmother, the sister returns as a ghost to look after her baby. But when the king [[ResurrectedRomance recognizes the spirit as his true wife]], she is miraculously restored to life by God.

* BrotherSisterTeam: Well, sort of...

* NamelessNarrative: Everyone is referred to by their [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep relationship to each other]]: the brother, the sister, the king, the stepmother and the stepmother's daughter.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what the Hell the witch did to the Sister's body after killing her. Some adaptions handwave it by having her magically turn the Sister into a ghost rather than actually killing her.

* BalefulPolymorph: The cursed stream turns the brother into a deer.

* RuleOfThree: It's from the third spring they encounter that the brother drinks from, and thus is turned into a deer. It's also during the third day the king and his court are out hunting that the king encounters the sister.

''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/11brothersister.html Brother and Sister]]'', also known as ''The Enchanted Stag'', is a German {{fairy tale}} best known as told by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.

This is one of the tales retold by ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}''. Compare ''Literature/TheThreeLittleMenInTheWood'' and the Russian fairy tale ''Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka''.

!! ''Brother and Sister'' contains examples of the following tropes:

''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/11brothersister.html Brother and Sister]]', also known as ''The Enchanted Stag'', is a German {{fairy tale}} best known as told by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.

!! "Brother and Sister" contains examples of the following tropes:

[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/11brothersister.html ''Brother and Sister'']], also known as "The Enchanted Stag", is a German {{fairy tale}} best known as told by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.

[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/11brothersister.html "Brother and Sister",]] also known as "The Enchanted Stag", is a German {{fairy tale}} best known as told by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.

This is one of the tales retold by ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}''. Compare "Literature/TheThreeLittleMenInTheWood" and the Russian fairy tale "Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka".

** Averted in ''Anime/GrimmsFairytalesClassics'', where the Brother is called Rudolph and the Sister is called Rose.

** ''Anime/GrimmsFairytalesClassics'' solves this with {{Bowdlerization}}: The Sister is kidnapped and not killed, but she's greatly weakened whenever her spirit projects itself in the castle to breastfeed the baby prince and she ''will'' soon die from such an effort. Fortunately, her husband the King finds her before she exerts herself to death.

** Averted in ''Anime/GrimmsFairytalesClasssics'', where the Brother is called Rudolph and the Sister is called Rose.

** ''Anime/GrimmsFairytalesClasssics'' solves this with {{Bowdlerization}}: The Sister is kidnapped and not killed, but she's greatly weakened whenever her spirit projects itself in the castle to breastfeed the baby prince and she ''will'' soon die from such an effort. Fortunately, her husband the King finds her before she exerts herself to death.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what the hell the witch did to the Sister's body after killing her. Some adaptions handwave it by having her magically turn the Sister into a ghost rather than actually killing her. Creator/PhilipPullman's ''Grimm Tales'' version has the stepmother hide the body by sealing the room with magic and hiding it behind a tapestry.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what the hell the witch did to the Sister's body after killing her. Some adaptions handwave it by having her magically turn the Sister into a ghost rather than actually killing her. Creator/PhilipPullman's version has the stepmother hide the body by sealing the room with magic and hiding it behind a tapestry.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is never explained what the hell the witch did to the Sister's body after killing her. Some adaptions handwave it by having her magically turn the Sister into a ghost rather than actually killing her.

[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/11brothersister.html "Brother and Sister",]] also known as "The Enchanted Stag", is a German {{fairy tale}} best known as told by the Creator/BrothersGrimm.