Daniel O'Rourke's wanderings
Daniel O'Rourke's wanderings is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 20, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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Daniel O'Rourke from Hungry Hill near Bantry tells how he fell into the water on the way from a celebration of his master. He was swimming on a swamp island. An eagle rescued him from a sinking stone, but instead of carrying him home to the moon, in revenge for a robbed nest. After a brief argument, the man in the moon cuts off the sickle he is holding on to. He lets a gander drop him over a ship, which he misses. A whale splashes water on it. It's a woman with a bucket of water. He had fallen asleep drunk under the walls of Carrigaphuka .
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According to Grimm: The fairy tale is common in Ireland. Carrigaphuka Castle, also called Phuka Rock, is west of Macrum . The man in the moon appears in testimonies of various peoples.
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 215-224, 269-270. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)