The stolen Heller

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The stolen Heller is a legend . It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 on position 154 (KHM 154), previously as Von dem stolen Heller in position 7. Ludwig Bechstein took it over in 1856 in his New German fairy tale book as Das Hellerlein ( No. 10).

content

A family is having lunch with a friend who is visiting. He always sees a pale child in a white dress come in at noon and go next door. The others don't see it. It digs through the cracks in the floorboard with its fingers and disappears when it notices it. The mother recognizes her recently deceased child in the description. Under the floorboards you will find two pennies that she once gave him for a poor man. The parents give the money to a poor person. The child won't come back.

origin

Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde , 1909

The text is in Grimms Märchen from the 2nd edition as No. 154 (note: "From Cassel . Vergl. Altdeutsche Blätter 1, 181."), in the 1st edition as No. 7 Von dem stolen Heller , with only insignificant different wording. Wilhelm Grimm heard him from Gretchen Wild in 1808 , but his handwriting has not survived. Such child breeding stories have appeared more and more in sermon collections since the early modern period , cf. KHM 117 The stubborn child , on the other hand the previous KHM 153 Die Sterntaler .

Bechstein

Bechstein's Das Hellerlein is very similar, the child should have donated the Heller in the church, at home it slipped between the floorboards. Bechstein's comment supplements a legend from Vachdorf about a farmer who takes a triplet from the bell bag , becomes melancholy about it and jumps into the well ( The legends of the Rhön Mountains and the grave field , no. 135: The triple ). So maybe Bechstein mixed this legend with Grimm's text. Cf. on the spook, The Tear Jug , The Blue Flame .

literature

  • Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 668-669, 19th edition, Artemis & Winkler Verlag Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 .
  • Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 250, 502. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 .
  • Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Cologny-Geneve 1975, pp. 178-179, 369 (Fondation Martin Bodmer, Printed in Switzerland).
  • 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. 69-70, 288-289.
  • Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 323-324.

Web links

Wikisource: The Stolen Heller  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Rölleke (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Cologny-Geneve 1975, pp. 178-179, 369 (Fondation Martin Bodmer, Printed in Switzerland).
  2. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 323-324.
  3. ^ 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. 69-70, 288-289.