The burial mound

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The burial mound is a fairy tale ( ATU 815, 1130). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 6th edition from 1850 at position 195 (KHM 195) and is based on Philipp Hoffmeister's Das Tale vom Dummen Teufel in the journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies from 1847.

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A stingy farmer considers his wealth. Then he has the feeling that there is a knock on the door of his heart. When asked about his life, he admits his selfishness. He is frightened and gives his poor neighbor, who knocks on the door, eight Malter Korn for his hungry children, on the condition that he watch his grave for three nights. The farmer dies three days later. On the third night the fearful neighbor meets a soldier who has abdicated and has not yet learned to be afraid and who keeps watch with him. Then the devil comes, who wants to chase them away to get the dead soul. When the soldier shows himself fearless, the devil promises him to fill his boot with gold. But the soldier cuts off the sole. When the devil fails to fill the boot for the third time, the first ray of sun drives him away. The soldier leaves his share of the gold to the poor and moves into his hut with the other.

origin

Grimm's note mentions the source, the journal of the Association for Hessian History, Vol. 4 and, for comparison, mentions from Hessen in Wolfs Zeitschrift 1, 246 and in Pröhles Kinderm. No. 18.

Wilhelm Grimm designed the beginning in more detail with the rich man's inner dialogue and reinforced the vacillating features of the grave guard through more harmless descriptions and mischievous speeches, and the like. a. the soldier's self-characteristic, which alludes to the KHM 4 fairy tale of someone who set out to learn to be afraid : “I am like the boy who went out to learn to shudder” and “Lord with the red pen,” said the soldier, “you don't be my captain, I don't have to obey you, and I haven't learned to fear. ” The plot remained the same. Wilhelm Grimm added other phrases.

On the poor and rich cf. KHM 87 The poor and the rich , to the fearless soldier with a bruised devil KHM 71 , 81 , 100 , 101 , 116 , 125 , 133 , 199 , 81a or 29 , 31 , 82 , 125 , 165 , 189 , 81a . The depiction of the devil as the gentleman with the red feather is also similar in Jeremias Gotthelf's novella The Black Spider .

The combination with the Danaiden motif of the shoe without bottom seems to come from Hoffmeister, all variants depend on Grimm's frame. The core of the narrative type AaTh 815, which is widespread in the Slavic, Scandinavian and German regions, remains in the dead skin (mostly the devil steals the corpse). The helper is often a pastor or a soldier, the latter always being inconsistent. One suspects originally revenant sagas that were Christianized and rationalized with money.

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literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 792-795. 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. 273, 514-515. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 504–511, 583. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 398-400. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Danaiden. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 3. pp. 267-270. Berlin, New York, 1981.
  • Lixfeld, Hannjost: burial mound. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 6. pp. 69-72. Berlin, New York, 1990.
  • Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm: grave guard. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 6. pp. 79-80. Berlin, New York, 1990.
  • Hauschild, Christiane: Treasure in the dead skin. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 11. pp. 1277-1280. Berlin, New York, 2004.

Web links

Wikisource: The Burial Mound  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 273, 514-515. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  2. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 504–511, 583. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  3. ^ Lixfeld, Hannjost: Grabhügel. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 6. pp. 69-72. Berlin, New York, 1990.
  4. ^ Hauschild, Christiane: Treasure in the dead skin. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 11. pp. 1277-1280. Berlin, New York, 2004.