The peasant
The Bürle is a Schwank ( ATU 1535, 1358 C, 1358 A, 1297 *). From the 2nd edition of 1819 onwards, it is in place 61 (KHM 61) in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm .
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A single poor peasant is by the rich, the peasant called (peasant). He has a cow carpentered and taken to the field by the shepherd, who leaves it in the evening where it is stolen. He has to give the boy a cow. It wants to sell the hide and on the way stops at a mill, in front of which it finds a raven with broken wings. When it seems to be asleep, the miller's wife serves the priest roast, salad, cake and wine. When her husband knocks, she hides everything including the priest and says there is only cheese sandwich. The peasant claims that the raven is a fortune teller and discovers the man's hidden food. For the last prophecy he negotiates three hundred thalers: The devil is in the cupboard. The man chases the priest away. The peasants are amazed at the burle's new wealth. It says it's from the cowhide that was sold. All of them slaughter their animals and get almost nothing for the skins. The peasant is to be rolled into the river in a barrel and the priest should read him mass, but it lures a shepherd into his place by making him believe that he will become mayor. It drives its flock home and says that it is under water, whereupon the others drown themselves and the peasant is rich.
origin
Grimm's note makes a note of Aus Zwehrn (by Dorothea Viehmann ) and mentions another story from Hesse, which is less complete (it corresponds to Von dem Schneider, who soon became rich in the first edition, by the Hassenpflug family ), and Mr.Hands (from Grimm's original handwritten version from 1810, perhaps from the Hassenpflug family): He has the sack with the rubble of his stove, which the peasants smashed for him, are kept by a noble lady, thus forcing money, and the peasants get nothing for their rubble. He escapes revenge by swapping clothes with his mother, who is beaten to death for it, puts the dead woman in a barrel at a doctor and extorts money. The peasants also kill their mothers. At the end a shepherd lays himself in the bin for him, drowns, and the farmers jump after him. In Büsching ( folk legends, fairy tales and legends, Leipzig 1812, no. 61) can lapwing Bauer killed his wife and puts them on a railing with fruit. A servant who has to go shopping throws her into the water because she does not answer, and Kibitz receives the car from his owner. Grimms compare Gonella in Flögels Geschichte der Hofnarren p. 309 and Rutschki or the Bürger zu Quarkenquatsch , a tradition by H. Stahl in Mitternachtsblatt 1829 No. 35. 36 and also mention Zingerle p. 5 and 419 , Prohle's fairy tale for youth No. 15, Müllenhoff no.23 and 24, which reproduce the Unibos , Wallachian Bakala in Schott no.22 .
Comparisons
Compare from Grimm's fairy tale KHM 61a From the tailor who soon got rich , KHM 70 The three children of fortune , KHM 146 The turnip , for the episode with the pastor also KHM 95 The old Hildebrand . Cf. from Giambattista Basiles Pentameron II, 10 Der Gevatter . The Bürle was the model for Hans Christian Andersen 's Little Klaus and Big Klaus .
Movie
- The wooden calf , DEFA feature film, b / w, 66 min., GDR 1960, director: Bernhard Thieme .
literature
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales . Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 358-362. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Brothers Grimm. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 119-122, 469-470.
- Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Cologny-Geneve 1975, pp. 174-177, 369. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland).
