Jumping water
Spring water is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 23, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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King Cork near the city of Cork has a fountain of the clearest water in the courtyard. When many people come to scoop it up, he has it walled up and only his daughter fetched it for his use. Once he invites everyone to a big ball, the daughter dances with a beautiful prince. After all, she also has to fetch water in the gold bucket, but it pulls her down. The prince accompanying them hardly has time to report to the king when the water rises and forms what is now Lake Cork. At its bottom, the festival goes on every night until someone pulls out the gold pail. It happened because the king closed the water to the poor. Sometimes you can see the city underwater.
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According to Grimm: A farmer in western Ireland said something similar that when the light is favorable you can see a magnificent city in the lake. Giraldus Cambrensis mentions the legend of Lake Neagh in the 12th century , which was a spring and flooded the country. At Waldron there is a legend of the Isle of Man , where a diver found a city under the sea. There are legends like this in Germany too, B. from Grimm's German Legends No. 132 Seeburger See .
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 235-238, 273-274. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)