The king in the bath

The king in the bath is a fairy tale ( AaTh 757). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 33 (1845 No. 40) and comes from Joseph von Laßberg's Liedersaal from 1820-25 (Vol. 2, No. 147).

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A proud king hears in the church that God is throwing the mighty off the throne, and he has that wiped out of all books. When he is bathing once, an angel takes his form instead of him. The barber throws the king out, everyone laughs at the naked man. Only his present clothes him and leads him to the throne. The king repents and the angel gives him his shape again.

origin

Bechstein names the source, an “old German poem” from the 14th century in Laßberg's Liedersaal . Mentioned Bible phrase "Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles" (He pushes the mighty from their chairs and raises the poor) is in the Magnificat ( Lk 1.52 EU ). The presenter is the Good Samaritan . The fairy tale is thematically similar to Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes .

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. 161-166, 386-387.

Web links

Märchen.com: The king in the bath

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 , pp. 386-387.

[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 , pp. 386-387.