The ears of corn

The title of this article is ambiguous. See also: The ear of corn .

The ear of corn is a legend (cf. AaTh 779). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book at position 28 (1845 No. 30) and comes from his Thuringia in the present , 1843 ( Die Aehren ).

content

In the golden age all grain carried ears of wheat to the ground. But people wasted it. God left only one. Since then there has been hunger. When the angelic word is fulfilled, it will be different again.

origin

According to Bechstein "Oral in Thuringia", he embellished the legend from Thuringia in the present , 1843, according to Hans-Jörg Uther . The angelic phrase "Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth with the people of his pleasure" is Luke 2.14  EU .

See Grimm's The Ear of Corn . See Kornfrevel in Richard Kühnau's Upper Silesian Legends of History , 1926.

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. 150-151, 386.

Web links

• Märchen.com: The ears of corn , 1847
• Märchen.org: The ears of corn

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 , p. 386.
2. ↑ http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/sagen_historisch/ursprungs_erklaerungssagen/kornfrevel.html haben.at : Kornfrevel