One-eyed, two-eyed and three-eyed
One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes is a fairy tale ( ATU 511). It is in the children's and household tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 on at position 130 (KHM 130) and comes from Johann Gustav Büsching's magazine Wöchliche Nachrichten für Freunde der Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Kunst, und Geschichtlichkeit , where Theodor Pescheck published it in 1816.
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A woman has three daughters: One-Eye has only one eye, Two-Eyes two, and Three-Eyes has three eyes. Two-eyes are treated badly by others because they look like other people. Once when she was sitting hungrily in a grove while tending the goat and crying, a wise woman appeared to her, who told her how she could say a saying to the goat and get fine food. The saying goes: "Kid, dirty, little table, deck!" As soon as she is full, she should say: "Little kid, dirty, little table, gone!"
When Two-Eyes, so full, does not eat anything at home, One-Eye goes with her to herd to find out the reason. Two-eyes succeeds in singing one-eye to sleep before it says its saying, but the same thing fails the next day with Drei-eyes, because she forgets to also sing the third eye to sleep. Dreiäuglein reveals the secret to the mother, who kills the goat out of envy. The wise woman reappears when two eyes are crying for the loss and advises her to bury the goat's entrails in front of the front door. The next morning a tree with silver leaves and golden apples grew at this point. Two eyes are the only ones who can pick the apples from the tree, but the mother does not thank her, takes them from her and treats them even harder than before.
A young knight comes to the tree, but the sisters hide two eyes in a barrel. When the knight asks who the tree belongs to, they claim it is theirs. But they fail to break the knight's fruit or twigs from it. Two-eyes rolled golden apples out of their prison at the knight's feet. He notices her, has her brought out, and, enchanted by Two-Eyes' beauty, takes her with him and marries her. With two eyes the tree disappears too.
When two beggars appear in front of the castle a long time later, Zweiäuglein recognizes their sisters in them. Despite all the evil they have done to her, she takes them in, whereupon her sisters regret their actions.
origin
Theodor Pescheck published the fairy tale in 1816 in Johann Gustav Büschings magazine Weekly News for Friends of History, Art and Knowledge of the Middle Ages (Vol. 2, pp. 17-26) under the title The story of the one-eye, two-eye and three-eye. (An Upper Lusatian child fairy tale.) The Brothers Grimm refer to this in their comment. Your text is linguistically a little clearer with more verbatim speeches, but hardly changes the content. In variants on the Rhine (Wilhelm Grimm's handwritten note: at Coblenz ) there are eight sisters. Compare with the daughter with a wise woman and gold tree KHM 21 Cinderella , with the goat entrails the bird's heart in KHM 60 The Two Brothers and KHM 122 The Herbs , with one-eyed Polyphemus and Odin , with three-eyed Jupiter .
The Brothers Grimm did not know Martin Montanus ' particularly early publication of the fairy tale vom Erdkühlein (1560). The goat can be the mother symbol ( Heidrun ), like the wise woman, and arises again as the tree of life , the silver and gold of which indicate the metal and fire of the earth mother, while the barrel embodies the wicked mother. Friedel Lenz interprets Zweiäuglein as a modern intellectual soul that has to grow beyond the dream world that no longer nourishes it.
Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron I, 2 The small myrtle .
literature
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler Verlag / Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 612–619.
- Brothers Grimm: 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. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 225, p. 494-495.
- Heinz Rölleke (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. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , pp. 132-151, 560-561. (Series of literature studies, vol. 35)
- Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 281-282.
- Sigrid Schmidt: one- eyed, two-eyed, three-eyed. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Volume 3, Berlin / New York, 1981, pp. 1197-1203.
- Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. First volume: AK. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 248-251.
- Hedwig von Beit: Symbolism of the fairy tale. A. Francke, Bern 1952, pp. 171-172.
- Friedel Lenz: the imagery of fairy tales. 8th edition. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House and Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87838-148-4 , pp. 84–96, 251.
- Ortrud Stumpfe: The symbolic language of fairy tales. 7th, improved and enlarged edition. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-03474-3 , pp. 13, 42, 44.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Brothers Grimm: 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. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 494-495.
- ↑ Hedwig von Beit: Symbolism of the fairy tale. A. Francke, Bern 1952, pp. 171-172.
- ^ Friedel Lenz: Visual language of fairy tales. 8th edition. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House and Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87838-148-4 , pp. 84–96, 251.