The snake with the golden key

The snake with the golden key is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 26.

content

A maid loyally tends the cattle. A snake lives in the cowshed. She once said that in three days it would be very long to wrap herself around the maid's neck three times and put a golden key in her mouth. So it happens, but the maid gets scared and shakes her off. Then the serpent has to wait another hundred years for redemption. The maid is crying.

origin

Bechstein remarks: "Often modified in popular language as in books." According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the source can not be determined. See No. 2 Das Natterkrönlein , No. 46 Schlange Hausfreund , No. 47 The Serpentine , No. 49 Siebenhaut , in Grimm's fairy tale about the toad and German legends No. 223 The Toad Chair .

literature

Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 159-160, 291-292.

Web links

Zeno.org: The snake with the golden key

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 291-292.

[1] Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 291-292.