"The Pack of Ragamuffins" (German: Das Lumpengesindel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 10. The title has been variously translated into ...
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English, as in "The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet: How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts", "The Pack of Ragamuffins", "The Vulgar Crew", "A Pack of No-goods", "Riffraff", and "The Pack of Scoundrels".
It is Aarne-Thompson type 210, The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man. Another tale of this type is the Grimms´ "Herr Korbes". The Grimms also compared it to "The Town Musicians of Bremen".
