The magic contest
The magic competition is a fairy tale ( AaTh 325). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 35 (1845 No. 43).
content
A journeyman bookbinder only has to clean the master's books every day, but a book is forbidden. After two years he reads it, there are magic spells. He transforms into a swallow and flies to his father, lets himself be offered by him as a magnificent ox on the market, the buyer only has a little straw. The next time he is a black horse, but his master buys him and prevents the father from loosening the rope from his foot so that he can transform himself. The black asks a boy to cut him off and flies away as a swallow. The master follows him as a vulture, the swallow becomes a ring and falls into the lap of a princess. The master asks her for it, the ring falls as a grain into a crack, the master pecks at it as a cock, it becomes a fox that bites off its head. The journeyman burns the book and marries the princess.
origin
The narrator jokes that some people become fat oxen, but nobody buys them dearly, and in the end, because he could have given the book to us, "we two certainly would not have turned into oxen". Bechstein only notes “Oral”, the conclusion resembles The Golden Roebuck , according to Hans-Jörg Uther the source cannot be determined. See Bechstein's The Old Magician and His Children , Grimms De Gaudeif un sien Meester .
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. 172-177, 387.
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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. 387.