The two round millers

The two spherical millers are a swank ( AaTh 1853). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 20 (1845 no. 22) and comes from Joseph von Laßberg's Liedersaal (vol. 2, no. 145: Das Wammas ).

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To get stuck, the fat miller fills his doublet with lime, sand and pitch, and puts scrap iron in the front. For the annual parish fair you have to pull it with oxen. A second miller is also prepared in this way. First they hate each other. Then together they do the greatest deeds.

origin

Bechstein names the source, Laßberg's Liedersaal .

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. 128-131, 384-385.

Web links

Märchen.org: The two round millers

Individual evidence

^ 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. 384-385.

[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 , pp. 384-385.