Daumerling's wandering
Daumerling's wandering is a fairy tale ( ATU 700). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 45 (KHM 45). Until the third edition, the title was Des Schneider's Daumerling Wandering .
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A thumb-sized but courageous tailor's son wants to go out into the world. His father gave him a darning needle as a sword. Then he looks at the mother with the food. The steam carries him out the chimney. He goes to a master, whose wife he complains about the food. She chases him away. He meets robbers, for whom he penetrates the king's treasury through a crack in the door and throws the thalers through the window. When the king comes he goes into hiding. He also makes a fool of the guards. The robbers praise him, but he just takes a cruiser and moves on. He doesn't like to work and ends up at an inn, where he is unpopular with the maids because he sees all the petty thefts. One throws him to a cow with cut grass. He calls out from her stomach when she is being milked and when she is about to be slaughtered, but is not heard or understood, not even during slaughter. He jumps between the knives and is smoked in the sausage in the fireplace until winter. When slicing at the table, he jumps out. A fox catches him outside, but takes him home to his father because he gets his chickens for it.
Origin and decorations
Jacob Grimm wrote the story of Marie Hassenpflug . It was then always included in the children's and house tales from the first edition in 1812 (first as Des Schneider's Daumerling Wandering ) in place 45.
The narrator's concluding remark that the father naturally preferred his child to the chickens is transposed in Jacob Grimm's handwriting. The cheeky speeches were gradually added to the printed editions from other sources. So Däumerling threatens to write on her door: "Potato too much, meat too little, goodbye, Mr. Potato King." When the cow is being milked, he calls:
- "Strip, strap, stroll,"
- "Is the bucket full soon?"
Grimm's comments
The Grimm notes mention KHM 37 thumbs down and many other sources. Svend Tommling, only the size of a thumb, wants to marry a taller woman. He is born with a hat and a sword and falls from a snuff box onto a piglet, which becomes his riding horse. The Greek poet Philytas is said to have had lead in his soles so that the wind would not blow him away, and Archestratos weighed only an obolus. From the Greek anthology :
- Suddenly raised by the faintest breath of the lisping west wind
- recently, Markos rose lighter than the chaff to the ether.
- And he would have sailed the air in a smoking hurry
- if the spider's web had not tangled his feet.
- When he was hanging here five days and nights, he seized
- one of the threads and slowly descended to the earth.
There is a legend about someone who could jump through the eye of a needle, someone who danced on a cobweb until the spider strangled him, someone who could walk through a dust of sunshine, someone who rode an ant until it kicked him to death, someone that was carried out to the chimney by the smoke from the fireplace, one that was driven out of the window by the breath of a sleeper and one that no one was allowed to approach without being inhaled.
In a proverb, a spider relates:
- Once upon a time I caught a tailor proud
- it was as heavy as lute wood,
- the one with a hat in the bet
- thet fall from heaven.
- He would have stayed inside
- nobody drove him out:
- fell into my yarn, got stuck in it,
- I couldn't come out, I didn't like:
- that the Schebhut too
- nine days before rabher came then.
The thumb-length Hansel with the long beard is stuck in a fish tooth, frightens those who call the devil, makes a nocturnal lover slip on peas on a plate, talks from the ear of a horse and is thrown out of the window in a cheese with holes.
Comparisons
Cf. Little Thumbling in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales .
cartoon
- SimsalaGrimm , German cartoon series 1999, season 1, episode 2: The Thumbling
literature
- Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition . With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 250-257 .
- Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 83-85 .
- Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 84-89. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland)
