The cursed city

The cursed city is a fairy tale ( AaTh 777). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales at position 28.

content

A wanderer is cursed only to sit down wherever asked. But the pastor of the mountain town sends him away because he is the eternal Jew. He goes and prophesies the city's decline. That's why.

origin

Bechstein took the text of his German Tell book , no. 18, "actually Alps forecast from near the Matterhorn, but breathed the magic of fairy tales poetry." ... "This expanded from me and kept in the dark color." The Eternal Jew quoted Psalm 37, 10  EU "If you will see to the wicked place, it will be gone" and Ez 6,14  EU "I will stretch out my hand over it and make the land desolate and desolate."

literature

• Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 169-172, 292.

Web links

• www.internet-maerchen.de: The enchanted city
• Zeno.org: The eternal Jew on the Matterhorn in Bechstein's German book of legends

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 292.