The good rag
The good rag (first: the good plaster ) is a fragment of a fairy tale ( ATU 561). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm it was only in the first edition of 1812 together with three others under the heading Fragments in place 85 (KHM 85d).
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Two approach sisters inherited a rag that turns everything into gold. When the clever, older one comes home from church, the stupid one exchanged it for a new one with a Jew who probably knew what was going on.
The progress of the plot is indicated in brackets: the Jew becomes a dog, the girls chickens, then people and beat the dog to death.
origin
Jacob Grimm's handwriting with the title Das gute Pflaster notated orally (perhaps the Hassenpflug family ). The correspondingly unchanged print version initially had the same title. It was subsequently changed again insignificantly ( gold instead of money ) and renamed Der gute Lappen . Jacob Grimm made a handwritten note: Is of little value .
Aladdin compares the note from A Thousand and One Nights , where a lamp is exchanged for a new one out of stupidity. Furthermore, a Middle High German verse tale The Sparrowhawk : The daughter sells herself to a lover for a Sparrowhawk while the mother goes to church; Jacob Grimm also noted Das Häselein .
On the rag that makes gold, cf. KHM 99 . Selling a valuable item is a motive in swings , e.g. B. KHM 59 , 104 . The brackets indicate a transformational competition, as in KHM 68 .
literature
- 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. S. 535. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Rölleke, Heinz (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. Pp. 224-225, 376-377. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland)
