The unequal children of Eve

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The unequal children of Eve is a fairy tale ( ATU 758). In the Grimm Brothers ' children's and house tales from the 5th edition from 1843 onwards, it is at position 180 (KHM 180) and goes back to Hans Sachs ' rhyme shift The unequal children of Eve from 1558.

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Adam and Eve, who were expelled from Paradise, have to work hard and have many children, beautiful and ugly. When an angel announces God's visit, Eve cleans the house, admonishes her beautiful children, but hides the ugly ones. God blesses the children, declares them nobles and scholars. She also picks up the ugly ones. But they get simple jobs. She doesn't understand. God declares that all classes are needed to feed one another.

origin

Wilhelm Grimm revised the version published by Jacob Grimms in the Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum in 1842, which goes back to Hans Sachs ' Reimschwank of 1558. The story had spread widely after Philipp Melanchthon's publication in 1539 and was originally translated from Italian sources by Johannes Agricola in 1528 and Christianized. The declaration of the origin of the estates justifies them in the Lutheran sense (cf. 1 Cor 12 : 4). The previous fairy tale KHM 179 The goose-girl at the fountain alludes to it in the final movement.

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. 263–265, 510. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 390–405, 577. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 371-373. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )

Web links

Wikisource: The Unequal Children of Eve  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 371-373. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )