The nut branch
The nut branch is a fairy tale ( AaTh 425). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 16 (1845 No. 18).
content
A merchant goes away and asks his daughters what to bring for them. The first wants a pearl necklace, the second a diamond ring, the youngest a nut branch. He's been looking for that in vain for a long time. When he breaks off a branch with golden nuts in the forest, a bear comes, who only spares him for what will run towards him first at home. The man thinks of his poodle, but then it's the youngest daughter. Everyone is happy about the gifts and wants to cheat the bear. He comes, receives the shepherdess, but notices it and demands his bride. She has to follow him into his cave, through eleven rooms full of gruesome animals. At the twelfth the bear is redeemed and a handsome prince with a castle and servants.
origin
Bechstein gives oral tradition and compares Grimm's Das singende jumping Löweneckerchen . Wilhelmine Mylius told the story after his foreword from 1845 . As Bechstein's comparison shows, it is a variant of the fairytale type that is also known from Beauty and the Beast . The fact that the bear doesn't accept ham or sausages instead of the woman sounds like Grimm's frog prince . The twig hits the hat, like in Grimm's Cinderella . Cf. Bechstein's ash blower with the whip , The White Wolf .
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. 109-114, 384.
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Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 384.