The old wizard and his children
The old magician and his children is a fairy tale ( AaTh 325). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Book of Fairy Tales at position 10 (1845 No. 9) and is based on The Magician in Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglios and Andreas Kretzschmer's German Folk Songs in their original ways from 1840 (No. 77).
content
A magician is holding two children captive and later wants to give them to the devil. If he goes out, he hides the magic book, but the boy still reads in it. They flee when the wizard is out early. When he catches up with her, the boy turns himself and his sister into a pond and a fish. The bad guy fetches nets, but next time they're a chapel with an altarpiece. He can't go in and bring fire. Then they are a threshing floor with a grain. The magician becomes the rooster to pick it up, the boy bites off his head as a fox.
origin
Bechstein notes: "After a folk song". The nut branch is somewhat related. The source is the poem Der Zauberer in Deutsche Volkslieder in their original ways . See Bechstein's The Magic Competition , The Witch and the King's Children , The Boy Who Wanted to Learn Witchcraft .
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. 80-83, 383.
Web links
- Märchen.com: The old magician and his children , 1847
- märchen.net: The old magician and his children
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. 383.