The tiny, tiny little man

The tiny, tiny little man is a fairy tale ( AaTh 301 A). It is at number 13 in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends from 1845 (No. 21: The bold sergeant ).

content

A blacksmith, a tailor and a hunter get lost in the forest and find a lighted house at night and sleep there. Always two go hunting, one stays and cooks, a little man comes along and says “Tailor, tailor, little tailor ...” and “Hunter, hunter, hunter! / I will put out your little fire for you ”and blow it out. In the end it is the blacksmith's turn, he is faster, clamps the man in the vice and beats him up. It leads them past an ogre in the basement and through a hole. Then the castle with the little king is redeemed, they marry the three princesses.

origin

Bechstein had the fairy tale "After verbal communication from the Saaltale", from the one with Wolf it is independent. He plays with the clichés of professions, the blacksmith is strong, the tailor a show-off, as u. a. in The valiant little tailor , The giant and the tailor . The ogre says “Hup! Hup! It smells of human flesh! Hup, hup - human flesh! ", Cf. The devil with the three golden hairs . The plot is similar to Bechstein's Die Drei Musikanten , Grimms Dat Erdmänneken and Der stark Hans , das Licht im Wald The glass coffin .

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. 76-80, 289.

Web links

• internet-maerchen.de: The tiny, tiny little man

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 , p. 289.