About the boy who wanted to learn to witch
There is a fairy tale about the boy who wanted to learn witchcraft ( AaTh 313 A). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales at number 21 and comes from Johann Jacob Mussäus ' Meklenburgische Volksmährchen in yearbooks of the Association for Meklenburgische Geschichte and Antiquity from 1840 (No. 7: The witchcraft ).
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Nobody wants to teach the boy how to witch, only a witch in the forest with her toads who wants to eat him. Lieschen, once stolen by her, warns him and flees with him. When the witch calls out that Lieschen should get up and make a fire, Lieschen's saliva from the threshold answers. The witch follows them in a brown cloud. Lieschen transforms the boy and himself into a thorn bush with berries, then into water with duck. When the witch tries to finish the water, it turns to fire and bursts.
origin
Bechstein names the source in Mussäus and notes the similarity of the transformations in other fairy tales. See Bechstein's The Old Magician and His Children , The Witch and the King's Children .
The witch's appearance is similar to Hansel and Gretel and Jorinde and Joringel , the toads The iron stove , the magical escape Fundevogel , The dearest Roland , De Gaudeif un sien Meester .
Movie
- About the boy who wanted to learn witchcraft , DEFA film, GDR 1987, director: Lothar Barke .
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. 136-141, 291.
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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. 291.