The three field shearers
The three field shearers is a fairy tale ( ATU 660). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 118 (KHM 118).
content
Three field clerks (doctors) passing through want to show their host that they can cut out their hands, hearts and eyes and put them back in again. A girl is supposed to keep the parts overnight, but the cat steals them when she forgets to close the closet door because of her lover. The lover, a soldier, takes the hand of a hanged man and the heart and eyes of a pig and a cat. The field shearers use them in the morning. The host is impressed. But on the way they notice that someone always wants to run into the dung, someone reaches out when a rich man is not looking at his money, and someone sees poorly during the day, but the mice in the dark at night. They turn back. The girl runs away and the landlord has to pay them a lot of money.
origin
The Schwankmärchen has been in the children's and house tales since the second part of the first edition of 1815 (since no. 32) at position 118. It comes from Dorothea Viehmann ( from Zwehrn ). The notes report a variant from the Gesta Romanorum : two doctors expose each other's eyes and use them to see who is better. The raven steals one from the table. Then he takes that of a goat, which from then on always looks up at the tree leaves. Furthermore, an old German story of how a künic Îsan won a katzen ouge : A king uses a cat's eye because he can see at night, but is annoying when he is always looking for mice.
literature
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales . Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 564-567. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales . Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 209–211, p. 491. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
