The fox and the lady godmother
The fox and the woman godfather is an animal fairy tale ( ATU 3 *, 4). From the second edition of 1819 onwards, it is at position 74 (KHM 74) in the children's and house tales by the Brothers Grimm .
content
The she-wolf invites the fox to be a godfather for her newborn cub because he is closely related and intelligent. The fox first acts respectably and can be tasted at the festival. Then he shows her a farm where she can fetch a sheep. Under the pretext of fetching a chicken, he runs off and rests until the she-wolf comes back after the farmers have doused her with lye. He pretends to have been beaten himself up and lets himself be carried home. Then he laughs at her and jumps away.
origin
Grimm's note noted from German Bohemia and compares in Haupt and Schmaler No. 6, in Haltrich No. 10.
Comparisons
The characteristic of the fox as cunning and cunning is very similar in KHM 72 The Wolf and the Man and KHM 73 The Wolf and the Fox . The wolf, which appears in well-known fairy tales such as The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats and Little Red Riding Hood , is greedy, but also clumsy and cowardly ( The old Sultan , The Wolf and the Fox ).
The children's and house fairy tales contain a whole series of short fabulous or fluctuating texts that seem to serve to characterize individual fairy tale creatures: the dog and the sparrow , the three lucky children , the fox and the cat , the fox and the geese , fairy tales of the toad , the fox and the horse , the owl , the moon .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 395-396. 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. 137, 475. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
