Godmother Toad

Godmother Toad is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales at position 7.

content

A girl mockingly greets a toad that she wants to be “godfather” (godfather). The toad awaits it at home. She leads it under the lake, becomes a beautiful woman and shows her the mermaid. The festival is wonderful. Three wonderful gifts prove that it was not a dream, they make the girl happy, but it is no longer possible to go to the lake.

origin

Bechstein found the subject “Oral in the Vogtlande; there with a local appeal, half legend, half fairy tale. ”According to Hans-Jörg Uther , the source cannot be determined. The frivolous promise is reminiscent of Grimm's Frog King , cf. otherwise the elves and fairy tales of death as a guest . The girl "shuddered", linguistically a borrowing from the fairy tale of someone who set out to learn fear .

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. 57-58, 288.

Web links

internet-maerchen.de: Godmother Toad

Individual evidence

^ 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. 288.

[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. 288.