The hare keeper and the king's daughter

The hare keeper and the king's daughter is a fairy tale ( AaTh 570, 554). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Book of Fairy Tales at position 31 (1845 No. 38).

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If you want the king's daughter, you have to catch her apple and then solve impossible tasks, first herding a hundred rabbits in the pasture. A shepherd's boy hesitates at first, but an old woman gives him a pipe that calls all the rabbits. The king's daughter buys you in disguise, has to cuddle the boy for it, he whistles back the rabbit. Even the king tries in disguise, he has to kiss his donkey under the tail. As a second task, the hero has to separate peas and lentils in the dark, as a third, eat a bread chamber empty, and ants and mice help with the whistling. Finally, the king makes him tell lies endlessly. With mention of “Schäferstündchen” of the king's daughter and donkey of the king it is good.

origin

Bechstein's comment is “According to oral tradition, from Franconia.” According to his introduction from 1845, Georg Friedrich Stertzing tells it . For the tasks cf. Grimm's fairy tale The white snake , the queen bee , the golden goose , the six servants (also to the closing formula "... who told it, wishes he had been a guest too"), the bird of griffin , to the apple throwing iron Hans , to the lies The flail from heaven .

Movie

• Der Hasenhüter , DEFA film, GDR 1977, 45 min., Director: Ursula Schmenger

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. 157-160, 386.

Web links

• maerchen.net: The hare keeper and the king's daughter

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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.