About the tailor who soon got rich
There is a Schwank from the tailor who soon got rich ( ATU 1535, 1297 *). It was only in the first edition of 1812 in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in position 61 (KHM 61a).
content
A tailor finds a frozen thrush on the way to his brother. He sees his wife hiding the priest with the roast and wine through the window when her husband comes. The tailor pretends that his thrush can divine that there is wine in bed and roast in the oven, and sells them to him for the box in which the priest is sitting. He takes the box with him and sings that he wants to throw it into the water until the priest stirs and offers him 50 thalers.
He tells people who are amazed at his new fortune that he sold his cow's hide at such a high price. Everyone does it, but this depresses prices so much that they get almost nothing. They throw dirt in front of the tailor's house. He puts it in a box and places it in safekeeping with a landlord. He comes back later, checks and rages because he's full of dirt. The landlord gives him 100 thalers.
The people, furious, force the tailor into a box and put him on a river. He shouts loudly that he does not want to do something until a shepherd approaches him. The tailor tells him whoever comes down the stream in this box should marry the king's daughter. The shepherd sits down in the box and the tailor takes his flock. He tells the astonished farmers that he found the sheep under water. You also see the clouds reflected, interpret the clumsy Schulzen jumping into it as coming and jumping behind. The village belongs to the tailor.
origin
The Schwank comes from the Hassenpflug family , just like Jacob Grimm's handwritten version from 1810. From the second edition onwards, it is only included in the note on KHM 61 Das Bürle , which is largely the same.
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literature
- 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. 119-120, 469 .
- Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 174-177, 369. Cologny-Geneve 1975.