The journeyman
The journeyman is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 19.
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A journeyman butcher leaves after his father's death. The mother gives him the best dog. Robbers attack him in the forest and kill the dog. He tells an old woman in the forest, who gives him three dogs and a whistle to call them in case of need. An innkeeper puts human flesh in front of him and shows him the slaughterhouse where he should serve him. But the fellow whistles for his dogs, kills the landlord and his accomplices and frees the servants. As a thank you, the landlady gives him a tobacco box, whoever sniffs it has to stay seated until he breaks it down. He meets a funeral wagon with a princess who her father sent to the devil to spare the country for. The journeyman offers the devil his own soul and lets him sniff it, so he has to release both. But the coachman forces the princess to pass him off as the savior and to marry him. She is postponing the wedding. Finally the real hero comes disguised as a beggar, gets dressed up in the inn and picked up by the princess. The coachman flees.
Comparisons
The source is unknown, according to Bechstein "Orally from the Saaltale", he compares The Three Dogs and The Blacksmith von Jüterbog in German Fairy Tale Book . He modernized the conclusion (probably that the driver is spared).
On the dogs, see the note on Grimm's KHM 54 Der Satchel, Hütlein and Hörnlein , also KHM 46 Fitchers Vogel , KHM 62a Bluebeard , KHM 60 The Two Brothers , KHM 82 De Spielhansl , KHM 111 The skilled hunter , Basiles I, 7 The merchant .
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. 118-134, 290.