The boys with the golden stars

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The boys with the golden stars is a fairy tale ( AaTh 707, 313). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 65 (1845 No. 76).

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At night a count overhears three girls spinning who want to marry him, one would cook for him, the second look after the children, the third give him two sons with golden stars on their breasts. When she repeats this to him during the day, he takes her straight away, but doesn't keep her word, he chases her away. He is not there for birth. His wicked mother lets the sons with the golden stars drown as cats. But the servant gives them to his aunt, where the outcast woman then also lives with them. On a dream she fills her pockets with linen cottons next to a linden tree, but is robbed, with bloody feet she goes begging. After a second dream, she exchanges the children for a spinning wheel and a little girl made of gold. To do this, she buys a night with him twice from the fairy who is holding her husband in Portugal. He receives a sleeping potion, but at last hears her wailing and feels longing. He leaves the fairy, triggers the children, the wicked mother is cast out, the servant is rewarded and the sons later become brave warriors.

origin

Bechstein's note noted “Orally in Franconia”, according to his foreword from 1845, Ludwig Köhler told it . " Leinkotten " are probably yarn, the spinning wheel and weife are used for spinning. The plot resembles some, partly less well-known fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, especially at the beginning of De Drei Vügelkens , The six swans with annotations, Prince Swan , The Mermaid in the Pond . The end with the sleeping draft is common, see The singing, jumping Löweneckerchen , De two Künigeskinner , The iron stove , The drummer , Basiles Pinto Smauto .

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. 299-303, 391-392.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 391-392.