The three gifts
The three gifts is a fairy tale ( AaTh 736, 946 D). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 63 (1845 No. 44).
content
Students give a poor linen weaver a hundred thalers. He hides them in the rags. His wife gives them to a rag collector cheaply. After a year the students come back, this time caution and give him another hundred thalers. He puts it in the ash pan. His wife gives the ashes to an ash collector for some soap. The third time, the students curse him and throw him a piece of lead. The neighbor can use it for his net, so he gives him a fish with a stone in its stomach that glows in the dark. The linen weaver receives a thousand thalers for this.
origin
Bechstein notes “Oral, in the Saaltale.” Hans-Jörg Uther suspects literary tradition. The linen weaver becomes "so angry that he leached his wife with unburned ashes" (see ash liquor ). The students grumble: “What use is the cow muscat? To give you a drip of money would be more stupid than you are. ”Cf. for example Bechstein's The Three Wishes , about the hoarded money the parable of the talents entrusted to you ( Mt 25 : 14-30 EU , Lk 19 : 12-27 EU ).
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. 295-297, 391.
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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. 391.