The three lazy ones

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The three lazy ones is a swank ( ATU 1950). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 151 (KHM 151) and comes from Johannes Pauli's collection of Schimpf and Ernst . The same number bears the following The twelve lazy servants .

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A dying king wants to appoint the laziest of his sons as heirs. The first says he doesn't even close his eyes to sleep if a drop falls into them. The second does not pull his feet back by the fire when they burn. The third would not cut the rope if you hung it. He becomes king.

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. S. 661.Dusseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 230-233, 565-566. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )

Web links

Wikisource: The Three Lazy  Sources and Full Texts