Oda and the snake
Oda and the snake is a fairy tale ( AaTh 425 I, 440 II, III). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book from 1853 at position 36 and comes from Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg from 1845 (Book 4, No. 1: Ode un de Slang ).
content
The eldest daughter has a golden spinning wheel brought from the market, the second a golden wire. Oda, the youngest, wants what runs away from her father under the car. It's a snake, the father leaves it on the doorstep. At the snake's request, Oda lets her into the house, into her room, and finally even into bed. Then the snake becomes a prince.
origin
Cf. Bechstein's Siebenhaut , Grimm's Das singende, jumping Löweneckerchen , Der Frogkönig or the iron Heinrich .
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. 177-178, 387.