Snake house friend
Snake house friend is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 46 and first appeared in his German Book of Legends from 1853 (No. 961: The snake as a guest ).
content
A poor man looks for sticks and brings home a snake. His wife is startled at first, but the snake becomes friends with the house cat and lives with the old couple. In the evenings while spinning, they tell each other stories.
Remarks
The snake from the brushwood, "an innocent toad", is reminiscent of Basile's fairy tale Die Schlange and Grimm's fairy tale of the toad . Bechstein takes the scene as a prelude to his following fairy tales No. 47 Die Schlangenamme , No. 48 Clear Moon and No. 49 Siebenhaut .
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. 258-261, 296.