The loyal animals
The faithful animals (original spelling: the faithful animals ) is a fairy tale ( ATU 554, 560). It was only in place 104 (KHM 104a) in the Brothers Grimm 's children's and house tales up to the 6th edition from 1850 and comes from the Mongolian collection Siddhi Kür (No. 13).
content
A man on the move uses his last money to buy a mouse, a monkey and a bear in three villages, which are tormented by boys there. He wants to borrow something from the king's treasury, but is caught and put on the river as a thief with bread and water in a box. The animals free him. When they don't know what to do next, a white, egg-shaped miracle stone comes swimming, with which the man wishes to be in a castle with a garden and horse stable. Later merchants come and he exchanges the stone for beautiful goods. There he is again in the box on the river. This time the animals cannot open the lock. Since the merchants still live in the castle, the mouse goes in and nibbles the sleeping man's hair, and he chases his cats away. So the following night she bites off the thread on which the stone is hanging unnoticed and drags it to the door. The monkey takes him out. The bear carries the monkey with the stone in its mouth and the mouse through the water. On the way he chats and threatens the monkey because he does not answer, whereupon the stone falls into the water. They tell the frogs and toads that an enemy is coming and that they have to collect all the stones for a wall. When the stone is there, they bring it to the man who has already eaten up bread and water and is starving. He wishes to be in the castle again.
origin
Grimm's note notes from the Schwalm area and compares u. a. KHM 74a From Johannes water jump and Caspar water jump , further u. a. Loki , who stings the sleeping Freya as a fly so that she takes off the collar.
The Brothers Grimm perhaps received the animal tale from Ferdinand Siebert and later learned that Benjamin Fürchtegott Balthasar Bergmann had translated it from the Mongolian collection Siddhi Kür (No. 13) in 1804 .
Comparisons
On the wages of animals, cf. KHM 60 The Two Brothers , KHM 85 The Gold Children , KHM 74a Von Johannes-Wassersprung and Caspar-Wassersprung , also KHM 17 The White Snake , KHM 169 Das Waldhaus , on the type of execution cf. KHM 16 The Three Snake Leaves , KHM 54a Hans Dumm . Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron III, 5 The Dung Beetle, the Mouse and the Cricket , IV, 1 The Rooster Stone . Cf. The grateful animals in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book and Ingratitude is the world's reward in New German fairy tale book .
literature
- 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. 535-536. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. p. 475, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 .