The beautiful young bride
The beautiful young bride is a fairy tale ( AaTh 311). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales at position 23 (1845 No. 29).
content
Robbers kidnap a girl. It has to do the housework and is called "beautiful young bride". When a great robbery requires all the men, she remains alone in the robber's house. She puts a straw doll with her clothes in the window, smears herself with honey and feathers and flees. On the way, robbers ask, "Where to, where, Mr. Federsack? / What is the beautiful young bride doing? ", She replies" She sweeps and cleans our house / And looks out the window too! " The girl finds home, has taken her annual wages and is getting married. The robbers see the figure in the window and first shout "Hello, beautiful young bride, / who looks at us friendly". Finally they kick in the door, grab the doll and shout: “Go well, you beautiful young bride! / He who builds on women is a fool! ”.
origin
Bechstein notes “Oral in Thuringia”, the source is unknown. The plot is similar to The Robber Groom , Fitchers Bird and Rabbit Bride in Grimm's Fairy Tales. Perhaps Bechstein combined all of the fairy tales of this type identified by Grimm as German to form the short text, including The Fairy Tale of the Knight Bluebeard in his collection. “Taking care of the household” sounds like Snow White , the robber's final rhyme as in Musäus' The Three Sisters . The straw doll of the fleeing man (cf. straw man ) is an old motif, cf. Basiles The wise Liccarda .
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. 138-141, 385.
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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. 385.