Phoenix bird
Phoenix bird is a fairy tale ( ATU 461). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it was only in the 1st edition of 1812 in place 75 (KHM 75a).
content
A rich man finds a child in a box in the river and raises him, but his steward puts him out in a boat. So the boy comes to the miller. When the manager finds him there, he sends him a letter to his wife that she should have him killed immediately. On the way he meets an old man who turns over the letter that he is now going to have his daughter as a wife. But the manager first lets him get three feathers from the Phoenix bird . The young man meets the old man again, who lets him go on to two pigeons on a tree. One tells him where a gate is, the other that the golden key to it is buried under the tree. Behind the gate, one of two men tells him the way to the castle behind the mountain. A mother hides him under the table and rips out three feathers from the man-eating phoenix while combing it, so that he gets his bride.
origin
The Brothers Grimm received the text from Marie Hassenpflug in 1812 . Later it is only mentioned in the note on the similar KHM 29 The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs as a different story from the Main area . See KHM 165 The Griffin .
Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron III, 2 Penta Without Hands , IV, 6 The Three Crowns , IV, 8 The Seven Täublein .
Movie
- The Peacock Feather , feature film, 100 min., ČSSR 1987, director: Petr Weigl, with Eva Vejmělková as princess
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. P. 68, 455. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
