The mother in law
The mother-in-law is a fragment of a fairy tale ( ATU 410). In the Brothers Grimm 's children's and house tales, it was only in the 1st edition of 1812 at position 84 (KHM 84a), later shorter in the annotation volume under fragments , no. 5 The wicked mother-in-law .
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The wicked mother-in-law has the queen locked up in the basement with her two sons when the king is at war. She sends the servant to cook one child for her in brown sauce, then the other in white. The queen makes him take a pig and a piglet. The mother-in-law wants to eat the queen too.
(The progress is indicated in brackets: This time a doe is slaughtered, then the children scream and must not be heard)
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According to Wilhelm Grimm's hand note, the text “18. April 1811 by Hassenpflugs ”. The note compares Perrault's la belle au bois dormant and Basile's Pentameron V, 5 sun, moon and Thalia . Grimm's comment on KHM 50 Sleeping Beauty also refers to this. Cf. with Grimm most likely KHM 49 The Six Swans , KHM 53 Snow White .
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- ↑ Heinz Rölleke, Albert Schindehütte: Once upon a time…. The true fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and who told them. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-8218-6247-7 , p. 250.