The young, glowing little man
The young man is a fairy tale ( ATU 753). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 147 (KHM 147) and corresponds to Hans Sachs ' Versschwank Der apen originally from 1562.
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At Peter's request, Jesus rejuvenates a beggar at a blacksmith's by putting him in the fire. The blacksmith tries the same thing with his mother-in-law, but she burns herself and becomes even more wrinkled. Two pregnant women are so frightened that they give birth to the first two monkeys.
origin
The Schwankmärchen is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second part of the first edition of 1815 (since no. 61) in place 147. It comes from Hans Sachs (as well as KHM 148 , 180 ) and was only used by the Brothers Grimm linguistically modernized and converted into prose. Grimm's note further compares the Greek fable of Medea and refers to Hans Folz and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen .
The blacksmith is first a generous host to Jesus and Peter in many turmoil and then a frivolous confederate of the devil, see KHM 82 De Spielhansl . The addition with the monkeys in the original Hans Sachs still follows the moral that pregnant women should be careful and that art has to be learned.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 657-658. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, brothers. 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. Pp. 243–244, 499. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-15-003193-1 .
- Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. In: Series of Literature Studies Vol. 35, 2nd verb. Edition, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 206-213, 563-564.
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 308-310.
- Of monkey brood and youth madness. A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm read critically. In: Schleswig-Holstein. The culture magazine for the north. Special Issue II: Myths / Fairy Tales, 2017, pp. 17–23. ISSN 0937-7247 online
