Lice and fleas
Läuschen und Flöhchen is a fairy tale ( ATU 2022). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 30 (KHM 30).
content
Läuschen and Flöhchen brew beer. Läuschen burns itself, whereupon the flea screams, the door creaks, the broom sweeps, the cart runs, the pile of dung is on fire, the tree shakes itself, the girl breaks her little water, the little fountain flows and thereby drowns everything.
construction
The story is told in such a way that everyone repeats a poem to the next one as a justification, to which he appends the new verse. In the end it says:
- "Läuschen got burned,
- Flea cries
- Door creaks,
- Broom sweeps,
- Cart runs
- Misty burns
- Tree shakes. "
origin
Wilhelm Grimm heard the story from Dorothea Catharina Wild in 1808 . It is in the original handwritten version of the Children's and Household Tales 1810 as No. 3, later as No. 30. The note mentions sources of similar children's verses.
parody
In Janosch's parody, Läuschen burns its paws while cooking, and everyone cries, fleas, brooms, handcarts, apple trees, worms, the narrator too, such crap , and it rains incessantly.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 197-199. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- 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. P. 69, 455. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: Flöhchen and Läuschen. 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. 85-87.
