The man without a heart
The man without a heart is a fairy tale ( AaTh 303 A, 302). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book from 1853 at position 17 and comes from Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg from 1845 (Book 4, No. 7: Vom Mann ohne Herz ).
content
Seven brothers want to get married, the youngest stays there, the others bring seven brides out of town. There is an old man living in the forest who wants one too. They refuse, so he petrifies them with his staff and keeps the youngest. Because she fears he might die, he tells her that he has no heart in his chest, be it in the duvet or in the front door. When she decorates it, he confides in her that it is in a bird in an old church. She tells the youngest who comes by looking for his brothers. She gives him food, and he lets an ox, a wild boar and the griffin eat with him. At the church the ox is drinking the ditch, the pig is blowing up the wall, and the griffin seizes the bird. The youngest takes it with him, she hides it under the bed when the old man comes in, he is sick and dies. The brothers are redeemed, all is well.
origin
The fairy tale has been with Bechstein since 1853 and is without comment on him. The beginning sounds like The Seven Ravens or The Seven Täublein , the old man in the forest like Das Waldhaus , the petrification like The Two Brothers , Jorinde and Joringel . The External Soul (AAth 302) appears at Bechstein in soulless .
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. 114-121, 384.
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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. 384.