Seven Mile Boots
In mythology, seven mile boots are boots with magical power that give the wearer the ability to cover long distances in a short time. The motif can be found in fairy tales , stories and poems . The loan translation Siebenmeilenstiefel comes from the fairy tale Der kleine Däumling by Charles Perrault (there “bottes de sept lieues”) and was naturalized in the German language by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , among others .
List of places where the motif Seven Mile Boots was found
- Charles Perrault : The Little Thumb , La belle au bois dormant ( Sleeping Beauty )
- Adelbert von Chamisso : Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Emilia Galotti (Act II, scene 6)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust II
- Graham Bonney : sang a hit called "Siebenmeilenstiefel"
- The museum rats : Two seven-mile boots are the main means of transportation in the television series
- Josef Haltrich : The three sisters with the ogre
- Heinrich Heine : Ideas. The book Le Grand
- Brothers Grimm : The Dearest Roland , The King of the Golden Mountain , The Okerlo ; (Magic saddle / wishing ring / coat also in The Raven , The Drummer , The Krautesel , The Long Nose )
- Ludwig Bechstein : The little shepherd's dream of happiness
- Wilhelm Hauff : The story of little Muck
- Jonathan Stroud : In his Bartimaeus trilogy you can find the seven -league boots.
- Markus Werner : Mainland
- Richard Halliburton : Seven League Boots , 1935 ("Seven Mile Boots").
- Diana Wynne Jones : Sophie in the Wizard's Castle , 1986
literature
- Friedrich Maurer, Heinz Rupp: Deutsche Wortgeschichte , T. 2, Berlin 1974, p. 274.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charles Perrault : Little Thumb in the Gutenberg-DE project ( archive version )
- ↑ Josef Haltrich : The three sisters with the ogre in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ^ Heinrich Heine : Ideas. The book Le Grand in the Gutenberg-DE project
Web links
Wiktionary: Siebenmeilenstiefel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
