The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.[1] In some editions the story is called The Almond Tree. The Text in the Grimm collection is in Low German.
It is tale number 47 and Aarne-Thompson type 720: "my mother slew me, my father ate me". Another such tale is the English The Rose-Tree, although it reverses the sexes from The Juniper Tree; The Juniper Tree follows the more common pattern of having the dead child be the boy.[2]