The hare and the fox
The hare and the fox is a swank ( AaTh 1 *, 2). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 29 (1845 No. 37) and comes from his Thuringia in the present , 1843.
content
The hare and fox are starving in winter. When a girl comes with a bread basket, the fox has the idea: The hare pretends to be dead, and while she bends down for the good hare's skin, the fox grabs the basket. It works, but the fox wants everything alone that the hare notices. At a lake he advises him to hang his tail in the water so that fish will bite. The fox freezes. The rabbit slowly eats the rolls and leaves. The fox barks after him.
origin
According to Bechstein "Oral in Thuringia", according to Hans-Jörg Uther , the animal fluctuation in Bechstein's Thuringia is in the present , 1843. It shows the world in gloomy colors. Instead of as in The Rooster and the Fox , here the fox is defeated , as in Grimm's The Fox and the Cat .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 152-153, 386.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 386.