The Bremen Town Musicians stackable animals

Description:	Made from wood, these animals represent a long-standing craft tradition. Woodworking exists in many forms, from nutcrackers, to Christmas candle pyramids, to smoking figures, to fairy tale figurines. Small wooden figures are created to represent characters in many different stories, fairy tales, folk tales, and fables. In a German story called The Bremen Town Musicians, animals befriend one another in their search to become musicians. During their journey to the town of Bremen, where they plan to create music together, they come upon a cabin in the woods occupied by robbers. When they look through the window and see the delicious food laid out on the table, they devise a plan to scare the robbers away. They climb on top of one another and barge in through the window, each animal singing as loudly as it can. The robbers run away, thinking that a scary ghost entered the cabin. The animals eat the food and make themselves at home. When the robbers think it is safe to return, the animals scare them in the darkness, making them believe that the house is haunted by a witch and other creatures. The robbers are so scared that they never return. The animals decide to call the cabin home and live there together happily ever after.
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/232
Collection:	The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/;
Copyright:	Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0);
Subjects:	Toys Wooden toys Folklore -- Germany

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