Golden cockerel (Bechstein)
Golden Cockerel is a fairy tale ( AaTh 567). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 69 (1845 No. 78) according to Heinrich Döring in Thuringia. Journal of the Customer of the Fatherland 1, No. 18 (1841).
content
The father leaves a golden chicken for the children and admonishes them never to sell it. It lays gold eggs, but they don't know, so the former egg buyer takes the bird from the son for a few thalers. You have to go begging. The widowed queen wants to marry the one who stabs the crown blindly with a lance. Because the golden chicken sings, whoever eats it becomes king, the owner lets it roast. Unknowingly, said poor son, who is helping in the kitchen, eats it. He comes to the tournament as a donkey driver and stabs the crown. The queen, however, does not want a poor man and transforms him into a donkey with magic herbs. As such, he suffered work for years until his sister, the nun, recognized him and turned him back. He lives as a devout hermit, loves birds, but hates golden cockerels.
origin
The text is pervaded by the idea of wealth that becomes a curse through mystery and resentment. Bechstein names the source in the Thuringia . Golden chickens are small birds with some golden plumage. Cf. Bechstein's Goldener , Schwan, kleb an , Das Dukaten-Angele , Grimms Der Krautesel , Das Goldei , to the lame horse also Der Eisenhans , Basiles Der Stein des Gockels , Die Gans .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 320-325, 392.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 320-325, 392.