The fat lollus and the lean lollus

The fat lollus and the lean lollus is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 36 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's Hessian sagas from 1853.

content

One brother becomes a monk, the other an innkeeper and cheats wherever he can. But he becomes impoverished and cannot pay the monk his inheritance. He shows him the fat lollus, the cellar spirit that benefited from all his greed. From now on the landlord is diligent and honest. Finally he can thankfully pay off his brother. The lollus has become very thin.

origin

Bechstein calls this a “real and very peculiar fairy tale material” from Wolf's Hessische Sagen , p. 229. The lollus is a figure of superstition. For the fraudulent host cf. No. 14 The bad night guard , to action, perhaps most Basile The two brothers .

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. 218-224, 294.

Web links

• The fat lollus and the lean lollus in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

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. 294.