Clear moon
Clear moon is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 48 and is based on Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends , No. 151 Die Katzenlinde zu Auweghem and No. 154 Drinking clear moonlight .
content
A man wakes up at night to the singing of beautiful women on his floor, who also receive him in a friendly manner. The cake tastes strange, he asks "in God's name" for some salt, then the cats jump away, and the cake is stale matzo. He follows his white cat, who has celebrated his birthday, with a beating, it escapes, breaks the window and does not return. His friends ridicule his story and his hatred of cats as “clear moon” and “cat herod”.
Remarks
A " Söller " is a roof terrace or attic, " Matzen " is bread. Bechstein tells the story of the cat from No. 46, the snake, a household friend , as an example of unjust persecution by people. Salt works against magic.
origin
The fairy tale is based on Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends , No. 151 Die Katzenlinde zu Auweghem and No. 154 Drinking clear moonlight , the ending comes from Bechstein's German Legends Book , No. 421 The Bishop's Cat .
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. 265-269, 296.
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. 296.