Fairy Tales Part 2

So I kind of get the “prodigal son” kind of feeling from a few of these stories. (The two stories about the thumbling and to some extent the Golden Goose one). They all kind of go along with the idea that the beloved son “goes away” for whatever reason and then comes back and we all rejoice. It's kind of like the non-biblical version of a biblical story. It's like the theme is the same as the biblical story, the idea that the sons go out and have these experiences and then come home to the ever loving father/family. I do find it interesting that the Grimm Brothers have stories like these that seem to be almost translated from biblical story to fairy tales for ordinary people.