The three spinners
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The three spinners is a fairy tale ( ATU 501). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 14 (KHM 14). In the first edition, the title was From the evil flax spinning .
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A lazy girl is beaten by her mother for not wanting to spin. The queen passing outside hears the screams. Out of shame at the daughter's laziness, the mother said that she couldn't stop her daughter from spinning. Then she takes the queen to her castle and shows her three chambers full of flax. If she has spun them into yarn, she should marry her son, even though she is poor. When she comes back on the third day, the daughter can still apologize for being homesick and unable to start. Then three old women come to her, the first has a wide flat foot, the second a large drooping lower lip, the third a broad thumb. They spin the flax for her. For this she should invite her to the wedding, it will be her happiness. The prince reacts astonished at the three bases of his bride. When they tell where they got their blemishes from, he decides that his wife will never have to go crazy again.
Grimm's note
The fairy tale is always at number 14 in Grimm, from the 2nd edition based on a story from the Principality of Corvei (by Paul Wigand ), in the 1st edition based on a Hessian version (by Jeanette Hassenpflug ) as Von dem Bad Flaxspinnen (from the the threesome and the specific blemishes of the spinners have been retained): The king travels and leaves a lot of flax for his daughters because he loves it so much. In order to save her, the queen invites the deformities and shows them to him on his return. In Johannes Praetorius' Der Abentheuerliche Glückstopf pp. 404-406 (1669), one base is wide from sitting, one has a giant nose because she has licked her mouth, and one has a flat thumb from twisting the thread. The plot is similar to Grimm's. When Theodor Pescheck are dripping eyes from dust flat, a large mouth and thick shape. The Grimms mention a passage in Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1845, No. 8 ) and a Norwegian and a Swedish one.
For lazy and hard-working spinners, cf. KHM 24 Ms. Holle , KHM 55 Rumpelstiltskin , KHM 128 The lazy spinner , KHM 156 The slurry , KHM 188 Spindle, shuttle and needle , also KHM 49 The six swans , KHM 181 The mermaid in the pond . The plot is similar from Giambattista Basiles Pentameron IV, 4 The seven rinds . One also thinks of the three moirs from Greek mythology , which assign the fate of the individual.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 113-116. 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. 35-37, pp. 447-448. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 31-33. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
Web links
- Märchenlexikon.de on The Three Spinners AaTh 501
- The three spinners as an mp3 audio book on LibriVox
