The wedding of the vixen woman

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The vixen wedding is an animal tale ( ATU 65). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 38 (KHM 38). Up to the 2nd edition the title was Von der Frau Vüchsin .

The text is printed in two exemplary variants, which play through the dialogues between wife, maid and suitors in many poems after the faked or real death of the old fox.

action

The old fox either plays dead out of jealousy (in the first fairy tale) or really is (in the second fairy tale). While Frau Vixen locks herself up and cries, the maid, the maiden cat, cooks in the kitchen. She receives the suitors and reports to Mrs. Vixen, who asks about the virtues her husband had. She first takes the one that also has nine tails or the animal that also has red panties.

Poems

First fairy tale

“What is she doing, maid cat?
is she sleeping or waking? "
“I don't sleep, I wake up.
Does he want to know what I'm doing?
I cook warm beer, put butter in it:
does the Lord want to be my guest? "
"She is sitting in her room,
she laments her misery
cries her eyes silk red,
because old Mr. Fox is dead. "
Then the cat went the trip the trapp,
Then the door hit the clip.
"Frau Vixen, are you there?"
"Oh yes, my kitten, yes."
"It's a suitor out of it."
"My child, what does he look like?"
"Now open the gates and doors for me,
and brings old Mr. Fox out. "

Second fairy tale

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Katz von Kehrewitz,
how come she's sitting alone
what is she doing good there? "
"Brock me rolls and milk:
does the Lord want to be my guest? "
"She sits up in the room,
weeps for their great misery,
weeps for their great distress,
that old Mr. Fox is dead. "
"Does she want another husband,
so it should just go down. "
The cat ran up the stairs
and let her line go quiet,
until she came in front of the long hall:
knocks with her five golden rings.
"Mrs. Vixen, is she inside?
She wants another husband
so it should just go down. "
"Cat, sweep the room,
and throw the old fox out the window.
Brings many a fat, fat mouse
always ate her alone,
but didn't give me any. "

Grimm's note

The wedding of Mrs. Vixen is included as No. 38 from the first edition of 1812. Jacob Grimm already knew it from his childhood. The note also provides the following poems from variants:

"Mrs. Kitze, Mrs. Cat,
nice little fire,
nice meat fry,
what is Mrs. Fuchs doing? "
"What is she doing there, my kitten?"
"Sit there, warm my baby."
Then the little kitten ran
with his crooked tail
up the stairs.
"Frau Vixen, is a beautiful animal down there!
designed like a beautiful deer in front of me. "

criticism

Achim von Arnim found the text for a children's book too obscene, which Jacob Grimm rejected: I wanted to swear into the soul of this fairy tale that it was pure and innocent .

Comparisons

Grimm's fairy tales also contain two fairy tales with rhyming dialogues on the subject of marriage: KHM 32 The clever Hans , KHM 131 The beautiful Katrinelje and Pif Paf Poltrie .

parody

Janosch makes new rhymes, the fox only pretends to be dead, but the vixen runs away with someone who has more tails.

cartoon

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 233-236. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Grimm, brothers. 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. Pp. 78–79, p. 458. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )

Web links

Wikisource: The Vixen Woman's Wedding  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Rölleke: Origin and publication history of the Grimm fairy tales. In: Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales . 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 841, 857.
  2. ↑ Janosch: From the woman vixen. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 61–63.