The ear of corn

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The ear of corn is a legend ( ATU 779G *). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 6th edition of 1850 at position 194 (KHM 194) and is based on The Sage of the Ear of Corn by Philipp Hoffmeister in the journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies from 1847.

content

Once upon a time, stalks of grain carried grain down to the bottom. When God saw a woman use it to clean her child's clothes, He took the gift away from people. The bystanders fell on their knees and begged for the chickens. He left something there.

origin

Grimm's note mentions the source, the journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (4, 1847, pp. 114–115), and compares Die Korneaus in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book and Vonbun, p. 23 .

Wilhelm Grimm replaced the introduction that an old gray head told the warning, through times when God himself walked on earth ... (as in KHM 87 The Poor and the Rich ), and tells more concretely how the child falls into the puddle (Original only: had dirtied himself ) when God just passed by . He rationalizes grace rather than the chickens by saying that God foresaw their misery . Cf. KHM 205 God's food , from Grimm's German sagas No. 234 , 235 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 241 , Joh 12 : 24-25.

In most European versions, the mother wipes the child's ass with ears of wheat, bread, cake or flour. The idea of ​​the holy grain exists in all peasant cultures. According to ancient Jewish and ancient Arabic traditions, the tree of life carried huge grains before Adam and Eve forbidden to eat them. In Christianity, the bread is the body of Jesus .

literature

  • 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. P. 273, 514. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 502-503, 582-583. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 397-398. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Ranke, Kurt: ears of corn. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 1. pp. 231-233. Berlin, New York, 1977.
  • Moser, Dietz-Rüdiger: Bread legends. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 2. pp. 816-821. Berlin, New York, 1979.

Web links

Wikisource: The Ear of Corn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. P. 273, 514. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  2. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 502-503, 582-583. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  3. ↑ Ranke, Kurt: Ährenfrefel. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 1. pp. 231-233. Berlin, New York, 1977.
  4. ^ Moser, Dietz-Rüdiger: bread legends. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 2. pp. 816-821. Berlin, New York, 1979.