The gold children
The Gold Children is a fairy tale ( ATU 303). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 at position 85 (KHM 85), previously as gold children at position 63.
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A poor fisherman catches a golden fish that will give him a castle with good food for his life as long as he doesn't tell anyone the cause. But his wife won't let him rest. When he tells her everything is gone. The whole thing repeats itself when he catches the fish again. The third time, the fish advises him to cut him into six pieces and give two each to his wife and two to his horse and bury two. This will become two golden lilies, two golden foals and two golden sons. When they grow up, they ride out into the world. One of them returns home when people mock them in a pub. The other happily travels through a forest of robbers, disguised in a bear skin. He's marrying a girl. His father wants to kill the bearskin. But when he sees him in bed that morning, he's glad he didn't. In a dream, the golden child goes hunting a deer and finds a witch who petrifies him. His brother sees it in the fallen lily, comes and forces him free.
Comparisons
The beginning is like Von dem Fischer un syner Fru , the rest like The Two Brothers . Gold pieces under the pillow also in Der Krautesel , Bärenhäuter in Der Bärenhäuter . A characteristic of the Gold Children is their determination ( “I should and must” ), cf. The golden bird . The most important source of the gold children is the Egyptian fairy tale about Bata , which is handed down in the two-brother fairy tale . Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron IV, 1 Der Stein des Gockels . See the ducat fishing rod in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales .
parody
At Janosch , the fisherman wants a permanent house and enough to eat, she wants gold children, who will be happy afterwards when the magic is over.
Movie
- The third prince or Treti Princ after Karel Jaromír Erben , ČSSR 1982 with Libuse Safránková as Princess Milena and her sister, Pavel Trávnícek as twin brothers and Nada Konvalinková - this film essentially takes up plot patterns from the fairy tale Die Goldkinder . The fairy tale by Karel Jaromír Erben O dvou bratřích , after which this film was made, can be read as a variant of The Gold Children .
literature
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 428-433. 19th edition, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
Web links
- Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm: "Children's and House Fairy Tales", Vol. 1, Berlin 1812, in the German Text Archive .
- Märchenlexikon.de on The Twin Brothers AaTh 303
- Märchenlexikon.de on The fisherman and his wife AaTh 555
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: The Gold Children. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 88-92.
