The lazy and the hardworking
The lazy and the hardworking is a fairy tale . In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it was only in the second part of the 1st edition from 1815 (since no. 33) in place 119 (KHM 119a).
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Two craft boys always want to stay together, but one becomes busy and lazy, the other hard-working. One evening the hard-working sees the lazy one lying under a gallows at night. He covers it with his coat and sticks to it. He hears two ravens. One says “God nourishes”, the other “do it”. The first falls, the second takes care of him. The craft boys take the ravens with them. The daughter of her landlord falls in love with the always dressed raven and kisses him, whereupon he becomes a man. He says they both insulted their father, who transformed them. Nobody kisses the other raven until he dies. This is a lesson to the lazy fellow.
Origin and comparisons
Grimm's note notes “From the Schwalm region” (probably by Ferdinand Siebert from Treysa ), and that redemption through a kiss is often found in legends.
On the curse of the father in ravens, cf. KHM 25 The seven ravens , for redemption Variants of KHM 1 The Frog King or the Iron Heinrich . Relatively similar among Grimm's fairy tales are also KHM 107a The Crows , KHM 107 The Two Wanderers , KHM 120 The Three Craftsmen . See Basiles The Two Brothers .
literature
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. With the original notes of the Brothers Grimm. Volume 3: Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue (= Universal Library 3193). With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Reprint, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 537-538.
