Straw, coal and bean
Straw, coal and bean is an aetological fluctuation ( ATU 295). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 18 (KHM 18) and from the 3rd edition is based primarily on Burkard Waldis ' poem Esopus . Until the second edition it was called Strohhalm, Kohl und Bohne auf der Reise .
Contents (edition 1812)
Straw, coal and beans want to travel. When they come to a stream, the straw lies over it, the coal wants to go over, but burns it, so that both of them perish. The bean slips, swells in the water and bursts. A tailor sews them together. Since then, all beans have had a seam.
According to another story , the bean first goes over and then bursts with laughter over coal and straw.
Contents (last edition)
While cooking, a poor old woman sprouts a straw, a bean and a coal that decide to stick together. When they come to a stream, the straw lies over it, the coal wants to cross, but burns the straw and both of them fall into it. The bean bursts with laughter. A tailor sews them together. Since then, beans have had a seam.
origin
Wilhelm Grimm heard the Schwank probably in 1808 from Dorothea Catharina Wild in Kassel. In the original handwritten version, it appears as No. 5, then always as No. 18, the content from the 3rd edition being influenced by Burkard Waldis ' poem Esopus .
The text is similar to the Russian fairy tale of the bubble, straw and bast shoe ( Russian Пузырь, Соломинка и Лапоть ). See also The Three Woodcutters .
Compare: KHM 80 From the death of the chicken
literature
- Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition . With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 133-134 .
- Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 39-40, 449 .
- Heinz Rölleke : Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are synoptically presented and commented on (= series of literature studies . Volume 35 ). 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , p. 32-37, 553 .
