About the boy who didn't want to wash

About the boy who didn't want to wash is a fairy tale . It is at number 12 in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book and comes from Joseph and Ignaz Zingerle 's children's and household tales from 1852 (No. 7: The hellish Thorwartl ).

content

A boy is afraid of water. He serves the devil at the gates of hell for seven years and doesn't have to wash. Then he warns the children about uncleanness and tells them who he saw going to hell. You give him a lot of money that he just keeps silent.

origin

Bechstein names the source in Zingerle, “There without a punchline”, and compares Grimm's KHM 100 The Devil's Sooty Brother . At Bechstein, the boy "shuddered" from the water, cf. KHM 4 fairy tales of one who set out to learn to be afraid .

literature

Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 75-76, 289.

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Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 289.

[1] Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 289.