The brave beggar man
The brave beggar man is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 17 and is based on The Beggar in Ignaz and Josef Zingerle 's Children's and Household Tales from Southern Germany (1854).
content
A lazy beggar wants to be a hero like the brave little tailor . He hits the flies with his hat on the cheese he begged on the mountain pasture and writes a note: “Seven in one go!” Farmers ask him to kill a bear. He acts big, then he flees from the bear to a hut and locks him up there. The peasants don't dare to go in, he shoots him through the window and is rewarded as a hero. He is supposed to kill another wild man in the mountains. Again he pretends it is nothing. He wants to escape, flees when he meets him and throws him into a ravine. He asks him to get a wedge from his wife, the wild Fangga. Instead, he fetches the sack of money, flees and rips out the bowels of a lamb on the way. The shepherds tell the chasing giant that he threw away his own bowels in order to be faster. He imitates it and dies.
origin
Bechstein notices the similarity to The Brave Little Tailor and states that he tried to give this Tyrolean version its full independence. Clumsy, dialect-tinged speech characterizes the naive peasants. The text parodies several fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm - in addition to The Brave Little Tailor, Also Of The Clever Little Tailor , in which the hero pretends that he has caught the bear and that they might want to “give him dance lessons”. When you think of “Bärenhäuter”, you think of Grimm's Der Bärenhäuter , when you think of the wild man, you think of De wilde Mann , when you steal the money bag, you think of The Master Thief .
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. 104-109, 290.