The golden roebuck
The golden roebuck is a fairy tale ( AaTh 313, 480). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at number 14 (1845 No. 17).
content
Two poor orphans beg at the door of an old woman who takes them in, but her husband is not allowed to see anything that would eat them. He yells at night that she hasn't fried anybody for him. The woman goes out in the morning, the children are supposed to sweep their eleven rooms, only the twelfth is forbidden. Through the keyhole they see a golden chariot with a golden roebuck inside. They drive away with it. When they meet the woman and the ogre, the girl transforms herself and her brother into a rose, and the old woman pricks herself on it. They come to an oven, a pear tree and a vine, who give them bread, pears and grapes. The chariot has the property that gifts are donated everywhere, the ogre and his wife had once stolen it. They notice that he is missing and they haunt the children. The girl has ducks build a bridge at a pond, they drive over it. The ogre imitates it, the ducks let him and the woman sink.
origin
Bechstein notes: “According to oral tradition.” Wilhelmine Mylius told the story after his foreword from 1845 . It resembles Bechstein's The Old Magician and His Children , The Witch and the King's Children , the robber's house with old Mrs. Grimm's The Robber Groom , The Devil and His Grandmother , the forbidden door Bluebeard , The Murder Castle , the magical escape, Fundevogel , Hansel and Gretel . The carriage is somewhat reminiscent of flying horses in fairy tales such as The Story of the Third Calendar ( Arabian Nights ).
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. 95-99, 383-384.
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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 , pp. 383-384.