The talking donkey

The talking donkey is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 30.

content

A mountain ghost teases a glass merchant who wants to make too much profit by turning himself into a tree stump to rest and then disappearing, breaking all the glass in the backpack. Then he appears as a companion with a donkey. He compensates him by selling the donkey to a greedy miller. In the miller's stable, the donkey starts talking like a devil and then disappears. The miller is dismayed and the glass dealer is happy.

origin

Bechstein calls this a Rübezahl fairy tale . Its source could not be verified, the oldest evidence according to Hans-Jörg Uther is Johannes Praetorius ' Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii . The donkey says “Juder Müller… I don't eat haha hay! I only eat Gebibobacken and Gebribrobraten! ”, Cf. Grimms KHM 110 or 36 .

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. 179-184, 292-293.

Web links

Zeno.org: The talking donkey

Individual evidence

^ 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. 292-293.

[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 , pp. 292-293.