The wishing ones

The wishing thing is a fairy tale ( AaTh 569). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 33 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends from 1845 (No. 26: Of four desired things ). At Bechstein, the title is written Die Wünschdinge [r] .

content

A king on the North Sea gives every son a ship. The first goes east and finds the silver land, the second in the west the gold land Eldorado, and the father is happy. The third is looking for food on a barren South Island, passes out and meets a girl who fetches a cloth from her old mother, whereupon the best dishes appear. This also saturates his team. On the second island someone has a staff with which one conjures up an army, which he invites, offers him the cloth for exchange and wins it back with the staff. So he got an old woman in a magical cloak that creates beautiful lands, and from a violinist the violin that enchants everyone. When he comes home, the father is disappointed. But he beats the invading enemies, feeds his troops, gives a concert and beautifies the country. As promised, he picks up the girl and marries her.

Remarks

The magic spell of the handkerchief begins: “Cover yourself, my wishing handkerchief ...”, the second verse varies, the proud violinist gets salmon and caviar. Bechstein names the source at Wolf, adding some humor. He notices that there are widespread fairy tale motifs, even “ Wuotan ” is a wish, the wishing cloth is reminiscent of a fairy tale by Roland's squires, Tischlein set you and others. See. Bechsteins Des little shepherd lucky dream , Grimm The Knapsack, the Hat and the horn , the girls also The drummer , to fiddle The wonderful musician , The Jew in the spine .

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. 195-207, 293.

Web links

• The wishing thing in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

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 , p. 293.