The old mother

The old mother is the eighth of ten children's legends in the appendix to the children's and house tales by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 208; ATU 934C).

content

A lonely old woman accuses God because her sons and all friends are dead. She hears the bell and finds the church full of dead relatives, and her seat is also taken. An auntie shows her her sons, who, if they hadn't died young, would have come to the gallows and to the bike . She goes home, thanks God, and dies.

origin

The forecast is from the second edition (1819) as children Legend no. 8, according to Grimm's note of Hesse . You compare the ghost church from German sagas (No. 175).

literature

• Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. With the original notes of the Brothers Grimm. Volume 3: Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue (= Universal Library 3193). With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Reprint, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 275-276, 518.

Web links

Wikisource: The old mother  - sources and full texts