The Goldmaria and the Pechmaria
The Goldmaria and the Pechmaria is a fairy tale ( AaTh 431, 480). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 11 (1845 No. 13).
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A widow has a bad daughter and a good stepdaughter who has to work. The good girl has to go, receives ash cake and water. She shares with the birds, there is cake and wine. At a house with a gold and a pitch black gate, she takes the black one and asks a gruff man for shelter. She chooses the company of his howling dogs and cats for sleep and breakfast, but has to go to him. She wants to go through the pitch gate, has to go through the gold gate, he shakes so that she becomes completely golden. So the widow is happy to take her back. She marries happily. The bad daughter does the same, but chases the birds away, and her cake and wine turn to ashes and water. She takes the gold gate, wants to sleep with the man, have breakfast with him and therefore has to go to the animals. She wants to go through the gold gate, has to go through the pitch gate and is full of bad luck, her mother is ashamed.
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Both daughters are called Maria, so the rooster can greet those returning home: “Kikiriki, here comes the gold marie (or“ the unlucky marie ”)! Kikiriki! ”The man's name is door man, probably because of the two doors.
origin
Bechstein notes: “According to oral tradition.” Wilhelmine Mylius told the story after his foreword from 1845 . There is a resemblance to Grimm's wife Holle , but also Das Waldhaus and Saint Joseph im Walde .
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. 83-87, 383.
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Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 383.