The old sultan

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The old sultan is an animal tale ( ATU 101, 103, 104). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 48 (KHM 48).

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The old sultan is an old toothless dog that his master wants to shoot. The wolf knows what to do and pretends to steal the little child, and the dog brings it back. Now the farmer treats him well. The wolf believes he can steal a sheep for this with impunity, but the dog reveals it to the farmer, who beats the wolf. For this, the wolf lets the dog challenge the pig to a duel. When the old dog appears there with an old three-legged cat, the other two mistake the cat's straightened tail for a saber and its limp for picking up stones. They hide, but its ears give away the pig in the leaves. Ashamed, the wolf makes peace.

origin

Grimm's version from 1812 is the oldest evidence of the combination of the story of the old dog (ATU 101), which is common in Central and Eastern Europe, as a trigger for the war of the animals (ATU 103, 104) in its normal form with the victory of the weak over the strong.

Cf. KHM 27 The Bremen Town Musicians , KHM 102 The Wren and the Bear , KHM 132 The Fox and the Horse ; Ingratitude is the world's wages in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales .

In Heinrich Steinhöwel's fable The Wolf and the Hungry Dog , a dog makes a wolf pretend to steal a sheep three times in order to get better food, while he denies him another one as a reward out of loyalty to his master. The fabric is of ancient origin.

Parodies

In Janosch's parody, the farmer wants to shoot the loyal dog who sneaks around the yard at night out of homesickness and wants to warn him of the fire, but burns everyone. Anike Hage published a manga in 2012 .

watch TV

In Kater Mikesch after the Augsburger Puppenkiste (b / w, 6 episodes, 1964) the dog is also called the old sultan .

literature

  • Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 273-275. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 .
  • Köhler-Zülch, Ines: Dog: Der alten H .. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 6. Berlin, New York, 1990. pp. 1340-1343.
  • Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm: Animal War. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 8. Berlin, New York, 1996. pp. 430-436.
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 114–115. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janosch: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tales. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 138-139.
  2. ↑ Grimm's Manga. Special tape. Tokyopop, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8420-0638-6 .

Web links

Wikisource: The Old Sultan  - Sources and Full Texts