The flail from heaven
The flail from the sky is a swank ( ATU 1960A, G, 1174, 1889, 1882). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 112 (KHM 112).
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Two oxen grow horns so long when plowing that the farmer gives them to the butcher on the way home. For this he brings him a Maas rapeseed and receives a thaler for each grain. On the way he loses a grain from which a tree grows into the sky. He climbs up and sees the angels threshing straw. Then the tree wobbles, someone wants to cut it down. The farmer makes a rope from the chaff from threshing and lowers himself with a hoe and flail . He comes into a hole, makes a flight of stairs with the hoe, and has the flail as evidence.
Grimm's note
Grimm's note notes from the Paderbörnischen (from the von Haxthausen family ) and gives another story from the Münsterischen (from the von Droste-Hülshoff family ): The king promises his daughter to the best liar, but all courtiers are too fine. A poor farmer's boy talks about the cabbage in his garden, where he climbed into the sky. The gate closed in front of his nose. The rope with which he lowered himself from the clouds broke. He fell into a pebble, but got a hatchet and cut himself loose. The king is impressed and gives him money that the farmer prefers to the ugly daughter.
In Calderón's play The Great Zenobia , Persius tells how he fetched barrel-sized berries from the army and hid in one from the giant. He swallows it down, but thinks it's the core and spits it out. So he flies to the army. He bends a fir tree with a rope and lets himself snap onto the wall. The use of the rope at Münchhausen is based on folk tales like Harbardsl. 17, Danske Viser 1, no. 43 and annotation. , ex arena funem nectere , Wunderhorn 2, 411 Das Dietmarsenlied . They also mention Asbjørnsen p. 284, Wuk No. 1, Vogl No. 2, Haupt No. 2, Helwig No. 2 and 3, Hans and the Beanstalk .
Comparisons
- Tales of lies in Grimm's fairy tales: KHM 138 Knoist un sine dre atonement , KHM 158 The fairy tale of the clever monkey land , KHM 159 The Dietmarian fairy tale of lies .
interpretation
Hedwig von Beit cites the fairy tale as an example of how experiences of the afterlife become motifs of vacillations by emphasizing the paradox. Lutz Röhrich shows that the narrator's milieu is true even when depicting God.
literature
- 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. 205–206, 489. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Ranke, Kurt: Threshing. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 3. pp. 889-891. Berlin, New York 1981.
