The tap bar
The tap bar is a legend ( ATU 987, 1290). It stands in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 149 ( KHM 149) and is an abbreviation of Friedrich Kind 's poem of the same name in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker's paperback for sociable pleasure from 1812.
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A girl who became wise by a four-leaf clover exposes a magician who makes a rooster carry a beam that is just a straw. He mocks her for this when she walks through a stream that is a field of flax at her wedding with her skirt raised.
origin
The Schwank of the type Augenverblendung ( AaTh 987) shows the earlier spread of traveling jugglers as well as flax for fabric production (see also KHM 14 , 128 , 156 ). Grimm's note cites the poem by Friedrich Kind in Becker's paperback as a source , gives a Paderbörnian version (probably by the von Haxthausen family ) and compares Rübezahl , a legend in Mones Anzeiger 1835. p. 408. and the legend of Rodulf and Rumetrud ( Grimm's German Legends , No. 395). The story can also be found in the sagas of the Bohemian prehistoric era , which appeared anonymously in 1808, inserted into the story of the sounding forest house.
The Grimm version corresponds to the normal form that is common throughout Central Europe. The rooster can be replaced by a tightrope walker, the shamrock by a snake, dead toad, salamander or that the girl was born on Sunday or Christmas Eve. In the Baltic States, the magician appears to be crawling through a tree trunk. The Central European form is in Wolfgang Bütner's Epitome historiarum (1576, p. 115 ff.) And is reproduced in connection with a clover in Johannes Praetorius ' Philosophia colus (1662, p. 59). The rooster with the bar appears in Étienne de Bourbon's Tractatus de diversis materiis praedicabilibus (13th century), later in Johannes Gastius , Augustin Lercheimer , Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen . The water magic already appears in the Vita Leos of Catania in connection with the magician Heliodorus in the 8th century in Sicily, who had women lift their clothes with it, later in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , in the Histoire de Valentin et Orson , in the Faust book from 1587, in the folk book of the magician Virgil.
The swimming in the flat field (AAth 1290) comes first in Paul the Deacon ' Historia Langobardorum before (8th century). It adorns fools, especially together with AaTh 1287 Cannot count oneself . Cf. KHM 119 The Seven Swabians ; from Grimm's German sagas No. 395 saga by Rodulf and Rumetrud .
literature
- 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. 244, 500. 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. 220-227, 564-565. (Scientific publishing house 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. 311-313. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- Ranke, Kurt: Blindfolded eyes. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 1. pp. 1003-1006. Berlin, New York, 1977.
- Gašparíková, Viera: Swimming in the flax field. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 12. pp. 444-447. Berlin, New York, 2007.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 311-313. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- ^ Ranke, Kurt: Blindfolded eyes. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 1. pp. 1003-1006. Berlin, New York, 1977.
- ↑ Gašparíková, Viera: Swimming in the flax field. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 12. pp. 444-447. Berlin, New York, 2007.