The man and the snake
The man and the snake is an animal tale ( AaTh 285 A). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 57 (1845 no. 72) and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Wise Men (Chapter 4: The ungrateful snake ).
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A man has a snake in his house, it should bring good luck. As he stays home alone on a Sunday with a headache, he sees her secretly crawling through the house and spitting poison into the food. He buries the food and waits with the ax next to her hole to kill her, but she drives back quickly. At the persuasion of his wife, he tries to make peace, a neighbor is a witness. But the snake refuses: Both trust is destroyed, it just wants safe conduct. The mouse, who tells this to the raven, and who nevertheless wants to be her friend, tells something else.
origin
The text follows No. 56 The Little Mouse Sambar or Faithful Friendship of Animals and, like this one, comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Ancient Wise Men , a translation of the Indian Panchatantra . This is followed by No. 58 The Rooster and the Fox , No. 59 The Life Story of the Mouse Sambar .
The snake in Bechstein's Das Natterkrönlein , the snake with the golden key , and snake house friend is more positive .
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. 270-272, 390-391.
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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 , pp. 390-391.