Knoist un his three atonements
Knoist un sine dre atonement (Knoist and his three sons) is a swank ( ATU 1965). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 138 (KHM 138).
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Knoist has a blind, a lame and a naked son. The blind one shoots a hare, the lame one catches it and the naked one puts it in his pocket. A ship runs on a large body of water, one sinks and one has no bottom, they go into it. In a chapel in a tree in a forest, a wicked sexton and a box-tree pastor hand out holy water with sticks. The text ends with the rhyme: Blessed is the man who can run away from the holy water.
Grimm's note
The note noted from the Sauerland (about August von Haxthausen from his sister in Gevelingen ). Werrel is Werl and Soist is Soest . It is told with very long syllables, also as a riddle with the solution 'a lie'. In a variant (also August von Haxthausen) the buck pastor and the hageböcken Köster distribute the holy water. When they enter the bottomless ship, one drowns, the second burns, the third never comes out. Grimms still compare references.
Cf. KHM 158 Das Märchen vom Schlauraffenland , KHM 159 Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen . See the fairy tale of the true liar in Ludwig Bechstein's German book of fairy tales from 1845.
The final movement Blessed is the man parodies Rom 4,8 LUT or Jak 1.12 LUT . Hans-Jörg Uther states that this story of lies uses the sons' disabilities for absurd comedy, but not for discrimination, which makes it more appropriate to fairy tales than to pranks. The names of the places (Werl is a place of pilgrimage) and the final sentence suggest that it is a parody of pilgrimage events and belief in miracles. The Brothers Grimm took over the reference to the singing narrative style from August von Haxthausen . Such tales of lies have existed since antiquity, the type of hare hunting three of the more unsuitable ones since the late Middle Ages. B. in the imaginary travelogue Finckenritter (around 1560), which the Brothers Grimm owned.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. 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. Pp. 232–233, 497. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 294-295. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
