The Okerlo
The Okerlo is a fairy tale ( ATU 327B, 313). It was only in the first edition of 1812 in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 70 (KHM 70a).
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A queen abandons her daughter in a golden cradle at sea. The cradle swims to an ogre island. The ogre raises the girl as a bride for her son.
When she catches the girl, who has grown up in the meantime, with a prince who has swum over, he is to be roasted for the wedding. Her husband, Okerlo, gets hungry at night and wants to eat the prince right away. The girl, who sleeps with the prince and the okkerlo children in the same room, hears this and puts the crown of an okkerlo child on the prince. In the dark, the ogre confuses the prince with her own child, who is devoured instead.
The girl then flees with the prince and takes a seven-mile boot, a divining rod and a cake with a bean. The bean warns them of the ogre who is chasing them. The girl and the prince turn into a swan and a lake with the help of the divining rod, once into a cloud of dust and once into a rose bush and a bee, whereupon the ogre-eater withdraws without having achieved anything.
As a rose bush and a bee, the two can no longer transform themselves back because the magic rod is too far away. The rose bush is in the garden of the girl's mother. This wants to break the rose and is stung by the bee. The rose stem is already a little torn and the mother notices blood in it. She then lets a fairy redeem the rose bush and the bee and is happy to see her daughter again. The girl and the prince are now celebrating a lavish wedding party.
The story closes with the description of the splendid wedding and the question of whether the narrator had also been there: Yes, the sun melted his buttery headdress, the cobweb tore the thorns and the glass slippers broke a stone (cf.KHM 84 Hans married , KHM 91 Dat Erdmänneken ).
origin
The Brothers Grimm had the magic tale by Johanna Hassenpflug . But it seems to go back to Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's fairy tale The Orange Tree and the Bee ( L'Orangier et l'abeille ). The closing verses go back to messages from Wilhelm Engelhardt's family. Grimm's comment compares & a. KHM 56 Dearest Roland . An okerlo is etymologically an ogre .
Cf. Little Thumbling in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 460-461. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )