The most essential

The most indispensable is a fairy tale ( AaTh 923). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 24 and comes from Ignaz and Josef Zingerle 's children's and household tales from 1852 (No. 31: Necessity of salt ).

content

A king wants to inherit that of his daughters who bring him "the most indispensable". In his eyes that is the oldest, she brings a purple robe, a king needs that. The second brings bread, which is too easy for him, but the third brings salt, and he rejects it. In an inn she becomes the famous cook who is invited to the wedding of the elders. The king's favorite dish is unsalted, he calls it here. She humbly holds out his words to him, “You don't need salt”. He picks them up again.

Remarks

Salt is sacred, concludes the narrator. In The Sharp Scissors and Clear Moon it banishes magic. Bechstein names the source at Zingerle. He tried to tell more dramatically. Compare with Grimm The goose-girl at the fountain .

literature

Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 152-156, 291.

Web links

The most indispensable in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 291.

[1] Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 291.