From a hermitage and three crooks

There is a Schwank about a hermitage and three crooks ( AaTh 1551). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 40 and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Old Wise Men (Chapter 5: The Hermit Cheated Out of a Goat ).

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Three thieves kill a pious hermit from his goat by coming by one after the other and claiming it is a dog.

origin

The text, at least in Bechstein's work, is told by the raven from no. 37 The eagles and the ravens to his king, to make it clear how they could outwit the eagles. The whole sequence comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Ancient Sages , a translation of the Indian Panchatantra .

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. 241-242, 295.

Web links

From a hermit and three crooks in the Gutenberg-DE project

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. 295.

[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. 295.