The ungrateful son (Bechstein)
The ungrateful son is a fairy tale ( AaTh 980 D). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 9 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends from 1845 (No. 35: The snake on the neck ).
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The son marries, the mother has the house and farm transferred to him and becomes hard and stingy with her. When she comes to dinner, he hides the roast in the oven and dismisses her mercilessly. When they want to get the chicken back, it's a disgusting snake that wraps around the son's neck. She never leaves, everyone is leaving him. Only his mother helps him and can finally free him from the snake.
origin
Bechstein names the source at Wolf , he improved the conclusion. Wolf's story is shorter, but his narrator already remarks: “Yes, you shouldn't go to sleep until you go to sleep,” the son says: “And if the devil is on the plate, I'll get him.” The end is missing .
Like Grimm's The Ungrateful Son , Bechstein brings here a sermon material that has been taken up again and again since Caesarius in Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum .
Thematically similar are Bechstein's Sonnenkringel , Das Hellerlein , The Black Count , and The Bad Night Watch . Snakes are also benign, see snake house friend .
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. 66-69, 288.
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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 , p. 288.
- ↑ Google Books: Johann Wilhelm Wolf "The snake on the neck"
- ^ Jacques Berlioz: Son: The ungrateful S. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen. Volume 12. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, pp. 824-830.