The three wishes
The three wishes is a fairy tale ( AaTh 750 A). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 22 and comes from Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen's Complete Adventure , 1850 (Vol. 2, No. 37: The Three Wishes ).
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The good Lord asks for shelter in the form of a poor old man. A rich man rejects him mockingly. But the poor neighbor waves to him. He shares with him, they talk. God tells the story of the blacksmith from Jüterbog and another one. He grants him three wishes, the man chooses bliss, health and home repair. The rich man watches. He shudders as the neighbour's house becomes beautiful. On the orders of his wife, he rides after the old man, has three wishes and the sack the neighbor has with him. On the way home, out of haste and anger, he wishes that the horse break its neck, then that the woman sit on the saddle. At home he needs the third wish to free her again. The neighbor's poverty overtakes him from the sack.
origin
See the blacksmith of Jüterbog . Bechstein names Hagen's Middle High German poem as a source and Grimm's The Poor and the Rich , saying that he had given everything “independent treatment.” It is also popularly spoken in Hesse and Thuringia. Cf. Perrault's The Foolish Wishes , Lever's Three Wishes , on the saying “Hans Narr” Grimm's brother Lustig .
filming
The 1937 film De drie wensen was based on the fairy tale .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 141-150, 291.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 291.