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Rätselmärchen is a riddle text ( ATU 407). From the 2nd edition of 1819 onwards, it is in place 160 (KHM 160) in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm , previously in place 69 of the second volume. There the title Räthselmärchen was written , up to the 2nd edition Räthsel-Märchen . The riddle comes from the Rätersch booklet (probably 17th century), which goes back to the Strasbourg riddle book (16th century).

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Three women have been transformed into wild flowers, but one is allowed to be home at night. She lets her husband redeem herself by breaking it off in the morning. The narrator asks how he recognized her. Answer: It was free of dew.

Origin and comparison

Grimm's note noted: From a people's book with riddles from the beginning of the 16th century in Haupt's magazine 3, 34 and compares KHM 56 Der Liebste Roland for metamorphosis and KHM 62 The Queen Bee for resolution . Jacob Grimm first found the fairy tale in the Rätersch-Büchlein , one of countless reprints of the Strasbourg riddle book , to which Wilhelm Wackernagel's publication in Moriz Haupt's magazine for German antiquity can be traced back.

Riddle questions also appear in KHM 22 The Riddle , KHM 94 The Clever Farmer's Daughter , KHM 114 From The Clever Little Tailor , KHM 125 The Devil and His Grandmother , KHM 85b Princess with the Louse . On the subject of marriage cf. KHM 69 Jorinde and Joringel , KHM 76 The Carnation . Roses in particular are in Grimm's fairy tales for women, lilies for men (KHM 9 , 51 , 85 , 96 , 113 , 188 , note on KHM 122 ). In a text from Grimm's estate, dill drops protect against witchcraft.

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. S. 674. 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. Pp. 254, 504. 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. 332-333. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 270–271, 569. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
  • Meinel, Gertraud and Klíma, Joseph R .: flower girl. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 2. pp. 495-506. Berlin, New York, 1979.
  • Neumann, Siegfried: Riddle Tales. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 11. pp. 280-285. Berlin, New York, 2004.
  • Grimm, Jacob: About women's names made from flowers. Read aloud in the Academy on February 12, 1852. In: Wyss, Ulrich (Ed.): Jacob Grimm. Autobiography. Selected writings, speeches and treatises. Pp. 190-215. Munich 1984. (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag; ISBN 3-423-02139-X )

Web links

Wikisource: Riddle Tales  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. p. 332. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  2. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Fairy tales from the estate of the Brothers Grimm. 5th improved and supplemented edition. Trier 2001. pp. 101, 118-119. (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; ISBN 3-88476-471-3 )