The bottle
The bottle is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 9, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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Poor Michael Purcell drives his last cow to Cork for sale . On the mountain, which is now known as the Bottle Mountain, an eerie old man offers him a bottle that will make him rich. He finally accepts, calmly survives his wife's scolding at home, lets her sweep and put on a tablecloth and says, “Bottle, do your duty!” Two tiny figures of light reveal food and expensive dishes. He's getting rich. Finally the landlord urges him to reveal his secret and buys the bottle for land. Michael thinks he is rich enough, but the money is squandered until he has to drive the last cow to Cork again. He receives a new bottle, rushes home and shouts the spell. Two great men cut everyone down. With that he gets the old one back from the landlord, they get rich. After a long life, the bottles break at the funeral because servants get into an argument.
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According to Grimm: The mountain of bottles is a desolate stretch between Cork and Mallow . There you can see the ruins of Morne Abbey , the walls of which are being undermined by treasure hunters. Reports of Welsh folk beliefs about mountain spirits follow. They compare KHM 36 little table set yourself! (see also KHM 99 The Spirit in the Glass ).
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 135-145, 257-259. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)