The fox and the geese
The fox and the geese is an animal tale ( ATU 227). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 86 (KHM 86).
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The fox wants to eat a flock of geese and does not answer any request except that they may say another prayer. Then they want to line up for him. One after the other starts to cackle "ga! Ga !" and they don't stop anymore.
The short text ends with the comment in brackets: And when you have prayed, the fairy tale should be told, but you still pray.
Comparisons
As number 86, the fairy tale formed the end of the first volume of children's and household tales, which appeared in 1812. So it had a similar function to The Golden Key (No. 200) as an open end to the entire collection of fairy tales.
The children's and house fairy tales contain a whole series of short fable-like or vacillating texts that seem to serve to characterize individual fairy tale creatures: The old Sultan , The Dog and the Sparrow , The Three Children of Fortune , The Wolf and the Man , The Wolf and the fox , the fox and the woman godfather , the fox and the cat , fairy tale of the toad , the fox and the horse , the owl , the moon .
parody
In Janosch's parody, the oldest goose thinks to stop the fox, so remains silent when he eats one or the other and leads him into the stable, where he finally only bites off everyone's heads.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. S. 433. 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. 157-158, 479-480. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: The fox and the geese. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 32–34.
