What KHM number is assigned to 'The Seven Ravens'?

“The Seven Ravens” is assigned KHM 25.

KHM stands for Kinder- und Hausmärchen, the German title usually translated as “Children’s and Household Tales,” the collection assembled and edited by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The numbers identify a tale’s position in the Grimms’ catalogue, not its publication date or its rank in popularity.

In “The Seven Ravens,” a father angrily curses his seven sons after they fail to fetch water for their newly born sister’s baptism. The brothers are transformed into ravens. Years later, their sister learns what happened and journeys to rescue them. She reaches a distant glass mountain and sacrifices one of her fingers to open it, eventually restoring her brothers to human form.

The story was included in the first edition of the collection and is associated with the international tale type ATU 451, “The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers.” Readers sometimes confuse its catalogue number with KHM 7, “The Good Bargain,” or KHM 47, “The Juniper Tree.”