The fox and the horse
The fox and the horse is an animal fairy tale ( ATU 47A). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 132 (KHM 132).
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The farmer chases away his old horse on the pretext that he'll keep it if it brings him a lion. The fox helps him, lets the horse lie down as if dead and fetches a lion. Under the pretext of tying the horse's tail to him so that he can pull it into his cave, he ties his legs together. The horse pulls the roaring lion to his master, who now treats it well until death.
origin
Grimm's note notes from Münster (by Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff ) and compares KHM 48 The old Sultan and Esopus at Steinhövel (7th extravagant, no. 87) (also in Hans Sachs , vol. 4, no. 405).
Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff sent the fairy tale to Wilhelm Grimm on September 12th, 1814, about which he wrote a letter to his brother on October 13th, 1814. Hans-Jörg Uther finds a similar plot in the medieval novel de Renart (9th branch, 1586–1903).
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 620-621. 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. S. 226, 495. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 283-284. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
