Princess with the louse
Princess with a louse is a fragment of a fairy tale ( ATU 621). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm it was only in the 1st edition of 1812 together with three others under the heading Fragments in place 85 (KHM 85b), later in the annotation volume as a fragment Die Laus .
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A princess is so extremely clean that a louse is miraculously raised to calf size from her head. When the louse dies, the princess has the fur made into a dress and asks every suitor what it is made of. (The text ends with the suggestion that someone will finally find out.)
Origin, comment, comparisons
The Brothers Grimm probably had the Schwankmärchen from Marie Hassenpflug . Her note compares KHM 52 King Drosselbart and in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron I, 5 Der Flea .
Compare also KHM 22 The Riddle , KHM 71 Sixes come through the whole world , KHM 114 From the clever little tailor , KHM 134 The six servants , KHM 181 The sea rabbit .
parody
In Janosch's parody, the king keeps a louse because it is from his daughter, and the lice multiply and grow until people live on them instead of the other way around.
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. S. 542. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: The princess with the louse. 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. 64-65.
