The bride show
The bride show is a swank ( ATU 1452). From the second edition of 1819 it is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 155 (KHM 155) and comes from Johann Rudolf Wyss ' idylls, folk tales, legends and stories from Switzerland (note on the apple sample ).
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A shepherd who wants to get married and cannot decide between three sisters, advises his mother to invite them over and watch them cut the cheese. The first devours it like that, the second cuts the bark off uncleanly, the third peels it properly. He takes it and lives happily with it.
Compare: KHM 156 Die Schlickerlinge .
origin
Grimm's comment cites the comment section on The Apple Sample at Johann Rudolf Wyss as the source : A shepherd chooses the one from three sisters who keeps the right measure when cutting cheese. Compare Grimms in Meier No. 30, Müllenhoff p. 413 and Schütze Holst. Idiot. 1, 334, 35 : A young man lets three sisters drop his key in the flax sock and takes the one that brings it to him the next day. The Persian story Journey of the Sons of Giaffar is different , where the most chaste woman covers her face with fish because males could be there.
literature
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf, Patmos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , p. 669.
- Brothers Grimm: 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. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 250, p. 502.
- Johann Rudolf Wyß: Idylls, folk tales and legends from Switzerland. Bern, Leipzig 1815, p. 321.
- Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 252-253, p. 567. (Literature series, volume 35).
