The smart people
The wise people is a swank ( ATU 1385, 1384, 1540). From the 7th edition of 1857, it is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 104 (KHM 104).
content
Farmer Hans lets his wife Trine sell the three cows in his absence, but not for less than two hundred thalers, otherwise he wants to beat them up. The cattle dealer has no money with him and leaves her a cow as a deposit. The angry man wants to spare her if he finds someone even more stupid. A woman is standing in the car on the road to reduce the strain on the animals. He claims to have fallen from heaven where her husband has no clothes. She gets him her money and also tells her son, who goes looking for the heavenly messenger and gives the farmer his horse so that he can return to heaven more quickly. He rides home satisfied.
Remarks
In addition to the rascal, the man's statement “I fell from heaven” also means presumption, as in other Hans fairy tales (KHM 32 , 83 , 84 , 108 , 136 , 162 , 166 , 54a ). He sits down in the grandfather's chair, smoking a pipe, and says: “If stupidity always brings in so much, I would like to honor it.” The narrator concludes: That is what the farmer thought, but you certainly prefer the simple-minded. See also KHM 34 Die Kluge Else and KHM 59 Der Frieder and Katherlieschen . Cf. The brave little beggar in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales .
origin
With this story from Hesse (by Dortchen Wild ), the Brothers Grimm replaced the previous No. 104 The Faithful Animals from the last edition of 1857 , because they determined their origin from Relations of Ssidi Kur . Your comments list further sources for both texts.
literature
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales . Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke . Pp. 509-512. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Brothers Grimm: 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. P. 196, 486. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
