The heavenly wedding
The heavenly wedding is the ninth of ten children's legends in the appendix to the children's and house tales by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 209; ATU 767).
content
A poor peasant boy hears a sermon that the path to heaven is always straight ahead. He goes and comes to church in a large town church, thinks he is in heaven and does not let himself be sent away. He sees how people pray with the baby Jesus in front of Mary and thinks it is God. He shares his meal with him and the picture thickens. Once when he was bedridden for eight days, he went there and apologized to the picture. That invites him to the wedding next Sunday. The pastor who was watching him is not allowed to come, but on Sundays he gives him communion and the boy falls dead.
origin
The legend is from the second edition (1819) as children Legend no. 9, before the second part of the first edition (1815) as a fairy tale no. 35. The note quoted from the Meklenburgischen, but also in the cathedral country known. They compare an Indian saga about an innocent boy who feeds an image of a god and a Swiss one about a boy who in his innocence could carry water in a sieve, like the Indian Mariatale .
Cf. KHM 204 Poverty and humility lead to heaven .
literature
- Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 275-276, 518 .
