The life story of the mouse Sambar

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The life story of the mouse Sambar is an animal tale ( AaTh 180, 75). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 59 (1845 No. 74) and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Wise Men (Chapter 4: The Misfortunes of the Mouse Sambar ).

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The mouse Sambar tells how she grew up in a hermit's house, jumped into his basket of food, and threw her family down from it. A guest of the hermit told him what another host told his stingy wife: A hunter shot a deer whose weight prevented him from shooting a bear, bear and hunter died, so she found a wolf, wanted to keep everything, just gnawed on the crossbow and died like that. The woman exchanged husked wheat for husked wheat, with good reason, as a neighbor mocked, the former had been defiled by a pig. From this the guest concluded that there was gold in the mouse-hole, took it out and shared it with the hermit. Without gold, Sambar lacked the strength to jump into the basket; now they avoided the other mice. She tried greedily to get hold of the gold, but in vain. She became a hermit, got to know the dove, the raven and the turtle, who are now listening to her. A deer comes and becomes her friend. When he gets caught in a net, the mouse frees him, but the hunter takes the turtle. The deer pretends that the hunter is following him and the mouse frees the turtle. You live happily.

origin

With Bechstein, the text concludes the series from No. 56 The Little Mouse Sambar or the Faithful Friendship of Animals , No. 57 The Man and the Snake , No. 58 The Rooster and the Fox and, like them, comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the ancient sages , a transmission of the Indian Panchatantra . On the mouse and the hermit cf. Bechstein's The Transformed Mouse .

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. 275-284, 391.

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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 , p. 391.