The little mouse Sambar or the true friendship of animals

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The little mouse Sambar or the true friendship of animals is an animal tale ( AaTh 233 B, 75). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 56 (1845 No. 71) and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Old Wise Men (Chapter 4: Of the Dove and Faithful Companions ).

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A flock of pigeons goes into the bird's net. On the advice of the lead pigeon, they fly up together, take the net with them and fly over mountains, so the bird cannot follow, to the mouse Sambar. The pigeon insists that her friend Sambar first gnaw the others who trusted her, so as not to tire too soon. So they get free. A raven observes all of this and now wants to be Sambar's friend too. She replies that it is unwise because they are enemies. She tells him a story.

origin

Bechstein names the source, Antonius von Pforrs The Book of Examples of the Old Wise Men , the first translation of the Indian Panchatantra into German, in the 1592 edition, and also refers to Albert Ludewig Grimm , who included some fables in his children's fairy tales . Bechstein's text is the prelude to the following No. 57 The Man and the Snake , No. 58 The Rooster and the Fox , No. 59 The Life Story of the Mouse Sambar . Nos. 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 and in New German Fairy Tale Book Nos. 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 come from the same source .

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 266-270, 390.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 390.