The blue flame
The blue flame is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 34 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's Hessian sagas (No. 145: Redeemed soul ).
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No servant stays with an old man because it is haunted. The new maid Anna doesn't notice anything at first, then at night she sees a blue light dancing around the bed, which whispers: “Go Ann, go Ann!” On the advice of the pastor, she follows the spirit, but does not accept anything, does nothing on orders and leaves not moving forward. The light becomes a little white woman who is picking up a treasure in the cellar. Anna goes to bed. She blesses the woman, she will be saved, Anna is rich and it is no longer haunted.
Remarks
The ghost repeats “Go Ann, go Ann!”, “Open up, Ann!” And “Pick a hole here, Ann!”, She says unmoved “You pick a hole!”… “I don't need one.” Bechstein names it Source at Wolf, and that there is no relationship with Grimm's Das Blaue Licht . In fact, the theme is more like The Stolen Heller or The Clergyman's Meal .
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. 207-209, 293-294.
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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 , pp. 293-294.