De Gaudeif un sien Meester
De Gaudeif un sien Meester ( The Gaudieb and his master ; ndd. Gauwe : nimble, nimble) is a fairy tale ( ATU 325). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 at position 68 (KHM 68) in Low German .
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Jan is told by the sexton from behind the altar that his son should learn to thief fun. Then he thinks it comes from God and takes his son into the forest to a hut with an old woman and her son. He teaches him thieving. The father should come after a year and only pay if he no longer recognizes his son. He complains to a male who advises him to throw a crust of bread in front of a basket in the chimney. The bird that comes out is his son. On the way home, the son lets his father sell him as a greyhound and then as a horse. But the Gaudiebmeister buys the horse and the father forgets to take his bridle off. It asks a maid and becomes a sparrow. His master pursues him and succumbs first as a sparrow, then as a fish, and finally as a chicken, which the son bites off the head as a fox.
origin
Grimm's comment notes “From the Münsterisches” and reports “A different story from Vienna”: A magician asks a boy whether he can write and read. When he says yes, he doesn't want him. The boy corrects himself that he can scream and eat, but not write and read. He works for him, but secretly reads the magic books. When the master catches him, they turn into songbirds and birds of prey. In the end, the boy as the rooster picks the master as grain. You also mention Müllenhoff No. 27, Pröhles Märchen für die Jugend No. 26, Straparola 8.5, in Danish at Etlar “S. 36 ”, in Polish in the Danish collection at Molbech No. 66 and Lewestam “ S. 110 ”, Wallachian with Schott No. 18“ the devil and his pupil ”, Serbian with Wuk No. 6, 1001 Nights “ 1, 385. 386 ”(probably The Story of the Second Mendicant Monk ), KHM 56 , 76 , 79 , one Welsh legend of Ceridwen "(Mone 2, 521)", Simplicissimus "S. 212.235 Mömpelg. Ausg. ", A story by Malagis who reads Baldaris' magical books" (Heidelberg. Handschr. Blatt 19b. 20a) ", a Hungarian fairy tale about the glass hoe near Gaal , Gerle's Bohemian fairy tale" S. 241 ".
The fairy tale probably comes from Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff , in whose handwriting it was found as Jan and his son in Grimm's estate. Forerunners would be in Straparola's Piacevoli notti 8.5, Gunnlaugr's Icelandic Jóns biskups saga Ögmundasonar , Ovid's Metamorphoses VIII, introducing the Mongolian Siddhi freestyle . See Grimm's motif KHM 129 The Four Artful Brothers , KHM 192 The Master Thief , Bechstein's The Old Magician and His Children , The Magic Competition , The Boy Who Wanted to Learn Witchcraft . Compare the story of the second mendicant monk in A Thousand and One Nights .
The narrative complex of the magician and his apprentice is, besides the magical escape (KHM 51 , 56 ), one of the very few places in European fairy tales with self-induced transformation. The majority of the traditions explain and evaluate them as divine or demonic curse. But the explanation that the boy had a master is also a rationalization. The transformation is never as natural as in the primitive folk tale, where identification with the animal does not require any supernatural act. Compare also KHM 105 Fairy Tales of the Toad .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 380-382. 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. 129–131, p. 473. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 162-163.
- Lutz Röhrich: Fairy tales and reality. 3. Edition. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01901-4 , pp. 90-91, 108, 214.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 162-163.
- ^ Lutz Röhrich: Fairy tales and reality. 3. Edition. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01901-4 , pp. 90-91.
