The dog's distress

The dog's need is an animal tale ( AaTh 1 *, 223). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 48 (1845 No. 55) and comes from Johann Nepomuk Count Majláth's and Johann Paul Köffinger's Kolocza Codex of Old German Poems from 1817.

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The lark helps the dog to get food by teasing the child and he eats his bread. She sits down on the bald heads of two threshers, one after the other, so that they fight. The dog falls down to them laughing and is spanked. He wants a doctor, the lark fetches the wolf, then the dog flees.

origin

Bechstein names a Middle High German swing poem in the Kolocza Codex . See Grimm's The Dog and the Sparrow .

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. 224-227, 389.

Web links

• Märchen.net: The dog's distress

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 , p. 389.