The brewery of eggshells
Brewing eggshells is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 6, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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Ms. Sullivan fears her baby has been exchanged for a changeling by elves because it is emaciated and howling overnight. On the advice of a healer, the gray Lene, she boils eggshells in water. The brat is amazed at this and says in the voice of an old man that he has not seen it in fifteen hundred years. The woman wants to throw him into the water, and it's her child again.
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Grimm compares the almost identical fairy tale in Grose's Provincial Glossary , in Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border II. 173 , KHM 39 Die Wichtelmänner (third fairy tale), S. Thiele I. 47. Die gray Lene (Ellen Liath, ie Helene with the gray hair) should really have existed. She was mindful and could z. B. tell a woman the death of her two sons and when she would receive the letter with the message. Johanna Sullivan was a young woman who refused her brother-in-law to forgive him for his injustice to her when he died. His spirit haunted her ever since. She could not implement Lene's advice to forgive him because she passed out at the sight of him. Lene then foresaw Johanna's death and her brother-in-law's anguish.
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1987, pp. 129–132, 254–256, ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 . The text follows the output: Irish fairy tales. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation have been slightly normalized.