The ungrateful son

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The ungrateful son is a fairy tale ( ATU 980D). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 145 (KHM 145) and comes from Johannes Pauli's collection Schimpf and Ernst (title there: One wore a Krot on the Antlit ).

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A man is hiding the roast chicken when his father comes. When he tries to take it again, a toad jumps in his face. He has to feed it from now on, otherwise it will eat out of his face.

Explanation

In addition to the moral doctrine ( 4th commandment ), the story contains a typical characteristic of the toad and the miser: "if someone wanted to put them away, they looked at him poisonously" ... "and so he went back and forth without rest in the world." Cf. KHM 185 The poor boy in the grave , Ludwig Bechstein's The ungrateful son , Jeremias Gotthelf's novella The Black Spider .

origin

Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde , 1909

The Brothers Grimm adopted the fairy tale from Johann Paulis Schimpf and Ernst (Chapter 413) in their children's and household tales from the 2nd part of the 1st edition from 1815 (since no. 59) by modernizing it linguistically. It was omitted the remark that the son owed his wife and property to the father, and that a saint would finally pray him healthy. The source mentions your note in Pauli and compares KHM 78 The old grandfather and the grandson , also a text by Thomas von Cantimpré , by Büsching “in Schlegel's Museum (4, 32. 33)”, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg's Evangelia with interpretation “( Strassb. 1517) Bl. 195–196. "

The tradition of the present narrative type ATU 980 D begins with example texts in the 13th century: a sermon by Caesarius von Heisterbach , also in Dialogus miraculorum (6, 22; between 1219 and 1223), a 299-verse narrative of the French Vie des pères (around 1230) , in Étienne de Bourbons Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus (163; 1250–61), Thomas Cantipratanus ' Bonum universale de apibus (2, 7, 4) and Bonaventura's Collationes de decem preceptis (5). The toad often indicates greed in Exempla . Caesarius von Heisterbach's and Thomas Cantipratanus' versions in particular lived on in books of examples and sermons such as Johannes Gobis Scala coeli (534), the Compilatio singularis exemplorum , John Bromyard's Summa predicantium (5, 35), in the great comfort of soul (12), Johannes Herolts Sermones de tempore (24) and Promptuarium exemplorum , in Speculum exemplorum (5, 34) and Magnum speculum exemplorum , Pelbárt von Temesvárs Sermones (175), later also in Martin Luther's table speeches , Protestant sermon books and collections of stories such as Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof's Wendunmuth (5, 110 ), Willibald Kobolts Schertz and Ernst together , Simon Goulart's Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps or Pauli's Schimpf and Ernst , but also as a song or ballad.

According to Hans-Jörg Uther , a toad appears as a lifelong, involuntary companion in Stephan von Bourbon's Tractatus de diversis materiis praedicabilibus around 1256/61.

literature

  • Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. P. 654. 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. 240–241, 499. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of Grimm's fairy tales are synoptically presented and commented on (= literature series literary studies. Volume 35). 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 184-185, 562-563.
  • Jacques Berlioz: Son: The ungrateful S. In: Encyclopedia of fairy tales. Volume 12. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, pp. 824-830.
  • 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. 304-306.

Web links

Wikisource: The ungrateful son  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of Grimm's fairy tales are synoptically presented and commented on (= literature series literary studies. Volume 35). 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 184-185, 562-563.
  2. ^ Jacques Berlioz: Son: The ungrateful S. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 12. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, pp. 824-830.
  3. ↑ 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. 304-306.