The white dove
The white dove is a fairy tale ( ATU 550). It was in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm only in the first edition of 1812 together with The Queen Bee , The Three Feathers and The Golden Goose under the surtitle Von dem Dummling at 64 (KHM 64a). Later it only appears in the note on KHM 57 Der goldene Vogel , while the other three are included in positions 62, 63 and 64.
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Every year the ripe pears disappear from the king's tree. The brothers wake up one year after the other, but fall asleep the last night until it's the turn of the stupid. He follows a white dove up a mountain into a rock and redeems a gray man and a king's daughter.
origin
According to his note, Wilhelm Grimm heard the fairy tale from Margarete Marianne Wild in 1808 . Compared to his handwriting from 1810, the language of the print version has been improved. The annotation establishes the similarity with KHM 57 The Golden Bird , which is why it only appears in the annotation to it later.
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. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. pp. 111–112. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 92-95, 357-358. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland)
