The three feathers (Bechstein)
The three feathers is a fairy tale ( AaTh 531 I). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Book of Fairy Tales at position 21 (1845 No. 26) and is based on The Pathen Gift in Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglios and Andreas Kretzschmer's German Folk Songs in their original ways from 1840 (No. 20).
content
A man finds a handsome boy to be a godfather for his son, it is Jesus who lifts the child from the baptism and gives him a horse. The young man then rides away with it. When he saw a beautiful feather on the ground on the way, the horse began to talk and advised that it should be left, also with a second one. But he picked up the third one, when girls came and crowned him king. Had he taken the first or the second pen, he would only have become a count or a duke, but if he had also left the third one, a fourth would have made him emperor.
origin
Bechstein notes: “After a folk song.” Cf. Bechstein's Goldener , Grimms Ferenand Tru and Ferenand Untroubled . There is no connection to Grimm's The Three Feathers .
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. 131-133, 385.
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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 , p. 385.