The misfortune
The misfortune is a parabola ( ATU 947). In the Grimm Brothers' children's and house tales, it was only at position 175 (KHM 175a) from the 4th to the 6th edition and comes from Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof's Wendunmuth ( from one of the ins holtz gieng , no. 178).
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A poor man doesn't even have firewood left, and all the trees in the forest are too thick to be felled. When he finally finds what he is looking for, wolves arrive. He wants to escape over a bridge, but it collapses. He jumps. Fishermen take it out and lean it against a wall. But when he comes to, the wall collapses and kills him.
The narrator explains in the first sentence that one cannot escape adversity if it is looking for one.
origin
The Brothers Grimm edited the text from Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff's Wendunmuth ( From one of the ins holtz gieng , No. 178). Your note from 1856 states that it goes back to a text in the oriental Bidpai , which is why it was replaced by The Moon in 1857 . A received letter dated February 29, 1836 shows that Jacob Grimm had already researched the original source at that time.
literature
- 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. S. 541. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 477-479. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )