Swan, stick on

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Swan, stick on is a fairy tale ( AaTh 571). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book at position 53 (1845 No. 65).

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The youngest son has to put up with everything from the two older ones. An old woman advises him to go away, to take a swan with him at sunset, which is tied to a pear tree next to a sleeper. Then when people want to pluck the beautiful feathers, he shouts “Swan, stick on!”, He only gets loose when he touches him with the stick that she gives him. First a boy smeared with clay sticks, then a maid who wants to free him, a chimney sweep, the bajazzo of a group of jugglers, and finally the bailiff and his wife. The king's daughter, who has never laughed before, laughs at the sight of this necklace. The hero is allowed to marry her, becomes a duke, and also calls the old woman to him.

origin

A bajazzo is a clown, the bailiff is a dignitary. Bechstein noted “Oral in Franconia”, it was often varied, even Piephahn, stick on it . According to his foreword from 1845, Ludwig Köhler told the story . Bechstein's golden cockerel is similar in motif .

Bechstein's Schwan, kleb an is the second known book version of the fairy tale type AaTh 571 Klebezauber , next to Grimm's Die goldene Gans . As in most versions, the wonder animal also comes with a spell. Maid “with a high skirt” and chimney sweep correspond to the usual arsenal of figures, in an Eastern European-Asian subtype the skirt of a miracle healer stays in the air.

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. 250-254, 390.
  • Christine Shojaei Kawan: Glue Magic. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 7. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-013165-X , pp. 1417-1425.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 , p. 390.
  2. ↑ Christine Shojaei Kawan: Glue Magic. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 7. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-013165-X , pp. 1419, 1420.