About the rabbit and the elephant king
About the rabbit and the elephant king is a fairy tale ( AaTh 92 A). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 38 and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Old Wise Men (Chapter 5: The Elephant King and the Cunning Hare ).
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The birds want to choose the eagle as their common king. The raven speaks against it: Better than a haughty ruler is someone who takes advice. He tells the story of rabbits that elephants trample on the land. The rabbit king's ambassador tells the elephant king that the moon is angry with him: he lets him drink from the moon fountain, whereupon the reflection of the moon becomes distorted. The elephant king repents.
origin
The narrator is the raven from No. 37 The Eagles and the Ravens , the story serves as a prelude to the following No. 39 About a Hare and a Bird . The whole sequence is from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Wise Men . The starting motif is the birds' choice of king, cf. Grimms The wren , to the moon holy rabbits further Jorinde and Joringel .
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. 230-235, 294.
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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. 294.