Schneider Hänschen and the knowing animals
Schneider Hänschen and the knowing animals is a fairy tale ( AaTh 613). It is at number 4 in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends (No. 4: The betrayed secret ).
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The shoemaker persuades the naive tailor to go hiking with him, he will pay. But he starves him and secretly eats himself. For the last two buns he shares with him, he pricks out both eyes, goes home and marries the woman they both loved. The dying overhears a bear, a wolf and a fox, that the dew of that night will heal the eyes, that the water under the market square will save the city from dying of thirst and that the sick princess can get well if her gold piece that has fallen next to it is placed in the offering box throws. Thus the tailor becomes a prince and the king's son-in-law. He meets the shoemaker, who imitates it immediately and is eaten by the animals.
origin
Bechstein names the source in Johann Wilhelm Wolf and notes the similarity to Grimm's The Two Wanderers and The Crows , but finds the present version better thought out and rounded. The moral black and white painting is also typical of fairy tales. The tailor does not hold back against the shoemaker, who, in his greed, punishes himself.
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. 31-44, 287.
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Individual evidence
- ^ 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 , p. 287.