The ravens deceit and vengeance

The raven deceit and vengeance is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 44 and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Wise Men (Chapter 5: The ravens fumigate the Aare ).

content

The raven learns of all the decisions of the eagles. The counselor who voted to kill him withdraws. Finally the raven reports to his raven king that the eagles have retired to a cave in the mountains. There they smoke them out. Since then there have been more ravens than eagles, and if that eagle advisor had not withdrawn with his, there would be none at all.

origin

Like the previous ones, the animal fairy tale comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Sages of old , a translation of the Indian Panchatantra .

literature

Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 252-254, 295.

Web links

Zeno.org: The raven's deceit and vengeance

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 295.

[1] Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 295.